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title: And now like the roar of an avalanche Rolls the sullen wrath of the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And now like the roar of an avalanche Rolls the sullen wrath of the maddened bulls. Who acts: avalanche. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 83

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And now like the roar of an avalanche Rolls the sullen wrath of the maddened bulls.

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**Who acts:** avalanche · **What happens:** roll, madden, roar · **To what, where:** sullen wrath

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (avalanche), 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:pg8122:7:83
# text = And now like the roar of an avalanche Rolls the sullen wrath of the maddened bulls.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	maddened	madden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present |  | the sullen wrath of the maddened bulls |  |  | now | like the roar of a avalanche | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Agent |
| 2 | **madden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **roar** |  | a avalanche |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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