Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 63

He is dead!--he is slain on the Bloody Plain, By the hand of the treacherous Chippeway; And the face shall I never behold again Of my brave young brother--the chief Chaskè.

Who acts: Bright, hand, I · What happens: be, slay, not behold · To what, where: Bright, Bloody Plain, face

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 (Bright, hand, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slain	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slain	aux:pass
8	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dead	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 Plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Plain	det
11	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Plain	amod
12	Plain	Plain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 slain	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hand	punct
14	By	by	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slain	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Chippeway	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Chippeway	det
19	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Chippeway	amod
20	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hand	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 face	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 face	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	conj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 behold	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 behold	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 behold	advmod
28	behold	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 face	acl:relcl
29	again	again	ADV	_	34 brother	advmod
30	Of	of	ADP	_	34 brother	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
32	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 brother	amod
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 brother	amod
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 behold	obl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 Chaskè	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Chaskè	det
37	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Chaskè	amod
38	Chaskè	Chaskè	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 brother	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bright			the face conj; dead property	tree rules
2	slay	present · passive	the hand of the treacherous Chippeway	Bright	the Bloody Plain		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	not behold	shall	I	the face not said here		of my brave young brother	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 63