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title: Raise the song of red war; for your chief must go To drown his grief… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Raise the song of red war; for your chief must go To drown his grief in the blood of the foe! Who acts: you, red war. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 79

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Raise the song of red war; for your chief must go To drown his grief in the blood of the foe!

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**Who acts:** you, red war · **What happens:** raise, go, drown, sing · **To what, where:** song, grief, blood

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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 (you, red war), 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:pg8122:8:79
# text = Raise the song of red war; for your chief must go To drown his grief in the blood of the foe!
1	Raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | imperative | you *not said here* | the song of red war |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | must | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your chief | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drown** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | song's grief |  | the blood of the foe |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 4 | **sing** |  | red war |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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