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title: There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the hungry wolves and foxes. Who acts: bloated body, cawing crows. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 61

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There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the hungry wolves and foxes.

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**Who acts:** bloated body, cawing crows · **What happens:** bloat, feed · **To what, where:** cawing crows, hungry wolves

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bloated body, cawing crows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:19:61
# text = There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the hungry wolves and foxes.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bloated	bloat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cawing	cawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | participle | Fox's bloated body |  | the cawing crows and ravens | there |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient |
| 3 | **feed** | participle | the cawing crows and ravens *not said here* | the hungry wolves and foxes |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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