Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 60

I will stain your knife in my heart's red blood, I will plunge and sink in the sullen river, Ere I will be wife to the fierce Red Cloud!"

Who acts: I, heart · What happens: stain, be, plunge, sink · To what, where: knife, red blood, fierce Red Cloud, sullen river, wife

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stain	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stain	aux
3	stain	stain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knife	nmod:poss
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stain	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 blood	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blood	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blood	cop
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blood	amod
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stain	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plunge	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 plunge	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 plunge	aux
15	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stain	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sink	cc
17	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 plunge	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
20	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 river	amod
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sink	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Ere	punct
23	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 river	appos
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wife	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wife	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 wife	cop
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plunge	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 Cloud	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Cloud	det
30	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Cloud	amod
31	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Cloud	amod
32	Cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plunge	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stain	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stain	future	I	your knife		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Destination
2	is	present	my heart		red blood	tree rules
3	plunge	future	I		the fierce Red Cloud	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial_Location
4	sink	infinitive	I not said here		the sullen river	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	future	I	wife		tree rules

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.

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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 60