--- title: He paid for his crime with his false heart's blood, But his angry sp… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: He paid for his crime with his false heart's blood, But his angry spirit has brought her dole; [61] It has entered her breast and her burning head, And she raves and burns on her fevered bed. " Who acts: Cloud, serpent. 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" **Who acts:** Cloud, serpent · **What happens:** pay, bring, enter, rave, burn, fever · **To what, where:** angry spirit, dole, fevered bed 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 (Cloud, serpent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:8:120 # text = He paid for his crime with his false heart's blood, But his angry spirit has brought her dole; [61] It has entered her breast and her burning head, And she raves and burns on her fevered bed. " 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 But but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dole dole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 61 61 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 entered enter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 raves rave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 fevered fever VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | Cloud | | | | | for Cloud's crime; with Cloud's false heart's blood | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crime=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive | | Cloud's angry spirit | | | | serpent's dole *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination dole=Theme | | 3 | **enter** | present · perfect · passive | | dole | | | | 61 *obl*; serpent's breast and serpent's burning head *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **rave** *speech: other* | present | serpent | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **burn** | present | serpent *not said here* | | | serpent's fevered bed | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location | | 6 | **fever** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **incriminate** | | Cloud | | | | | | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/121/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/)