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title: In the famine of winter the wolf shall prowl, And scratch the snow f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In the famine of winter the wolf shall prowl, And scratch the snow from the heap of stones, And sit in the gathering storm and howl, On the frozen mound, for Wakâwa's bones. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 85

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In the famine of winter the wolf shall prowl, And scratch the snow from the heap of stones, And sit in the gathering storm and howl, On the frozen mound, for Wakâwa's bones.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** prowl, scratch, sit, gather, howl, freeze · **To what, where:** famine, snow, heap, gathering storm, frozen mound

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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 (wolf), 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:pg8122:8:85
# text = In the famine of winter the wolf shall prowl, And scratch the snow from the heap of stones, And sit in the gathering storm and howl, On the frozen mound, for Wakâwa's bones.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	prowl	prowl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	howl	howl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	On	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	Wakâwa	Wakâwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | **prowl** | shall | the wolf |  |  | the famine of winter |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in famine=Trajectory |
| 2 | **scratch** | infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | the snow |  | the heap of stones |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent snow=Patient from heap=Source |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the wolf *not said here* |  |  | the gathering storm |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in storm=Location |
| 4 | **gather** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **howl** | present | the wolf *not said here* |  |  | the frozen mound for Wakâwa's bones |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mound=Location |
| 6 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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