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title: Devoured by famine, and fraud, and war, And chased and hounded from… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Devoured by famine, and fraud, and war, And chased and hounded from woe to woe, As the white wolves follow the buffalo." Who acts: white wolves. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 49

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Devoured by famine, and fraud, and war, And chased and hounded from woe to woe, As the white wolves follow the buffalo."

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**Who acts:** white wolves · **What happens:** devour, chase, hound, follow · **To what, where:** woe, buffalo, Devoured fraud

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white wolves), 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:pg8122:8:49
# text = Devoured by famine, and fraud, and war, And chased and hounded from woe to woe, As the white wolves follow the buffalo."
1	Devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fraud	fraud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hounded	hound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by famine | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hound** | participle |  |  |  | woe to woe |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | present | the white wolves | the buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |

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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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