Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 79

Raise the song of red war; for your chief must go To drown his grief in the blood of the foe!

Who acts: you, red war · What happens: raise, go, drown, sing · To what, where: song, grief, blood

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 (you, red war), 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	Raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raise	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 war	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 war	amod
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 song	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 chief	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chief	nmod:poss
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Raise	conj
13	To	to	PART	_	14 drown	mark
14	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grief	nmod:poss
16	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drown	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 blood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blood	det
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drown	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 foe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 foe	det
22	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blood	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	imperative	you not said here	the song of red war			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
2	go	must	you not said here			for your chief	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drown	to-infinitive	you not said here	song's grief	the blood of the foe		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient
4	sing		red war				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 79