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title: He is dead!--he is slain on the Bloody Plain, By the hand of the tre… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: He is dead!--he is slain on the Bloody Plain, By the hand of the treacherous Chippeway; And the face shall I never behold again Of my brave young brother--the chief Chaskè. Who acts: Bright, hand, I. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 63

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He is dead!--he is slain on the Bloody Plain, By the hand of the treacherous Chippeway; And the face shall I never behold again Of my brave young brother--the chief Chaskè.

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**Who acts:** Bright, hand, I · **What happens:** be, slay, not behold · **To what, where:** Bright, Bloody Plain, face

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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 (Bright, hand, I), 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:pg8122:8:63
# text = He is dead!--he is slain on the Bloody Plain, By the hand of the treacherous Chippeway; And the face shall I never behold again Of my brave young brother--the chief Chaskè.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	By	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	behold	behold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
30	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bright |  |  |  |  | the face *conj*; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | present · passive | the hand of the treacherous Chippeway | Bright |  | the Bloody Plain |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **behold** | shall | I | the face *not said here* |  |  |  | of my brave young brother | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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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