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title: Like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe, That grappled breaks f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe, That grappled breaks from the dread assault, Dash the warriors wild on Wiwâstè's trail. Who acts: That, warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 2, sentence 33

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Like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe, That grappled breaks from the dread assault, Dash the warriors wild on Wiwâstè's trail.

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**Who acts:** That, warriors · **What happens:** grapple, dash, wild · **To what, where:** breaks, dread assault, trail

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 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 (That, warriors), 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:pg8122:9:33
# text = Like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe, That grappled breaks from the dread assault, Dash the warriors wild on Wiwâstè's trail.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grappled	grapple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dread	dread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wild	wild	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Wiwâstè	Wiwâstè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grapple** | past | That | breaks |  | the dread assault |  | like wolves on the track of the bleeding doe | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wild** | present | the warriors |  |  | Wiwâstè's trail |  |  | tree rules |

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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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