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title: [35] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mothe… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [35] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mother that plead in vain, Soiled the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 97

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\[35\] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mother that plead in vain, Soiled the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** plead, soil, honor · **To what, where:** vain, honored plumes, 35

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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 (mother), 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:pg8122:7:97
# text = [35] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mother that plead in vain, Soiled the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	plead	plead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Soiled	soil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | present | a mother |  |  | vain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soil** | participle |  | the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent plume=Destination |
| 3 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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