Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 47

May the feet of my brother be swift, till they bring him again to our teepees; The red pipe he takes as a gift, may he smoke that red pipe many winters.

Who acts: feet, red pipe, chief · What happens: be, bring, take, smoke · To what, where: chief, teepees, red pipe

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, red pipe, chief), 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swift	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feet	det
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swift	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brother	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feet	nmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 swift	cop
8	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 bring	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	nsubj
12	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swift	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 teepees	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 teepees	nmod:poss
17	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bring	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pipe	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pipe	amod
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swift	parataxis
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 gift	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gift	det
26	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 smoke	punct
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 smoke	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 smoke	nsubj
30	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 takes	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 pipe	mark
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pipe	amod
33	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoke	obl
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 winters	amod
35	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smoke	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	the feet of my brother				swift property	tree rules
2	bring	present	feet = foot	chief	our teepees	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to teepee=Destination
3	take	present	the red pipe				as a gift; chief nsubj	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as gift=Attribute
4	smoke	may	chief	red pipe		winter		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 47