Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 48

At my lodge-fire his pipe shall be lit, when the White Chief returns to Kathága; On the robes of my tee shall he sit, he shall smoke with the chiefs of my people.

Who acts: White Chief, chief, my · What happens: lit, return, sit, smoke, fire · To what, where: pipe, lodge fire, Kathága, robes

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 (White Chief, chief, my), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 fire	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fire	nmod:poss
3	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lodge	punct
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lit	obl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pipe	nmod:poss
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lit	nsubj:pass
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lit	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lit	aux:pass
10	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 returns	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 returns	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Chief	det
14	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Chief	compound
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 returns	nsubj
16	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lit	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Kathága	case
18	Kathága	Kathága	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 returns	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sit	punct
20	On	on	ADP	_	22 robes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 robes	det
22	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sit	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tee	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tee	nmod:poss
25	tee	tee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 robes	nmod
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sit	aux
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sit	nsubj
28	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lit	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smoke	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smoke	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 smoke	aux
32	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sit	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 chiefs	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chiefs	det
35	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 smoke	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 people	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 people	nmod:poss
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 chiefs	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lit	shall · passive		chief's pipe		my lodge fire		tree rules
2	return	present	the White Chief		Kathága			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kathága=Result
3	sit	shall	chief			the robes of my tee		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on robe=Location
4	smoke	shall	chief				with the chiefs of my people	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with chief=Instrument
5	fire		my					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 48

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Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 48