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title: Death shrieked in the twang of their deadly bows, And their hissing… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Death shrieked in the twang of their deadly bows, And their hissing arrows drank brave men's blood. Who acts: Death, hissing arrows. 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 92

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Death shrieked in the twang of their deadly bows, And their hissing arrows drank brave men's blood.

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**Who acts:** Death, hissing arrows · **What happens:** shriek, drink, twang · **To what, where:** twang, blood, deadly bows

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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 (Death, hissing arrows), 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:pg8122:8:92
# text = Death shrieked in the twang of their deadly bows, And their hissing arrows drank brave men's blood.
1	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	twang	twang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hissing	hissing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shriek** | past | Death |  |  | the twang of warriors's deadly bows |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twang=Location |
| 2 | **drink** | past | warriors's hissing arrows | brave men's blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **twang** |  |  | warriors's deadly bows |  |  |  |  | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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