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title: I will stain your knife in my heart's red blood, I will plunge and s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: I will stain your knife in my heart's red blood, I will plunge and sink in the sullen river, Ere I will be wife to the fierce Red Cloud!" Who acts: I, heart. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 60

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I will stain your knife in my heart's red blood, I will plunge and sink in the sullen river, Ere I will be wife to the fierce Red Cloud!"

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**Who acts:** I, heart · **What happens:** stain, be, plunge, sink · **To what, where:** knife, red blood, fierce Red Cloud, sullen river, wife

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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 (I, heart), 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:pg8122:7:60
# text = I will stain your knife in my heart's red blood, I will plunge and sink in the sullen river, Ere I will be wife to the fierce Red Cloud!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stain	stain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | future | I | your knife |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | my heart |  |  | red blood |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plunge** | future | I |  |  | the fierce Red Cloud |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sink** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the sullen river |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | future | I | wife |  |  |  |  | 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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