Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 97

[35] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mother that plead in vain, Soiled the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé.

Who acts: mother · What happens: plead, soil, honor · To what, where: vain, honored plumes, 35

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 (mother), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 35	punct
2	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 35	punct
4	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 stain	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stain	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stain	det
7	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 35	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 slain	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slain	det
10	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slain	amod
11	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stain	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blood	punct
13	Or	or	CCONJ	_	15 blood	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blood	det
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slain	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blood	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 plead	nsubj
20	plead	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mother	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 vain	case
22	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plead	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Soiled	punct
24	Soiled	soil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 blood	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 plumes	det
26	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 plumes	amod
27	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Soiled	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Hóhé	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hóhé	det
30	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Hóhé	amod
31	Hóhé	Hóhé	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 plumes	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 35	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	plead speech: request	present	a mother		vain	tree rules
2	soil	participle		the honored plumes of the brave Hóhé		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent plume=Destination
3	honor	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, Heyóka Wacípee [16]--the Giant's Dance., sentence 97