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title: Beneath the glow of the Virgin Star They raised the song of the red… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Beneath the glow of the Virgin Star They raised the song of the red war dance. Who acts: warriors, Virgin Star, red war dance. 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 88

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Beneath the glow of the Virgin Star They raised the song of the red war dance.

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**Who acts:** warriors, Virgin Star, red war dance · **What happens:** raise, glow, sing · **To what, where:** song, glow

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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 (warriors, Virgin Star, red war dance), 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:pg8122:8:88
# text = Beneath the glow of the Virgin Star They raised the song of the red war dance.
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the song of the red war dance |  | the glow of the Virgin Star |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent song=Theme beneath glow=Destination |
| 2 | **glow** |  | the Virgin Star |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **sing** |  | the red war dance |  |  |  |  |  | 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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