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Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 54

Spake DuLuth,--"May the Great Spirit bless with abundance the Chief and his people; May their sons and their daughters increase, and the fire ever burn in their teepees."

Who acts: Spake, May sons · What happens: bless, increase, burn · To what, where: fire, teepees

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 (Spake, May sons), 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

nsubjflatpunctpunctpunctnsubjdetflatapposcaseobldetapposccnmod:possconjpunctcompoundnmod:possnsubjccnmod:possconjconjpunctccdetobladvmodconjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctrootSpakePROPNDuLuthPROPN,PUNCT--PUNCT"PUNCTMayPROPNtheDETGreatPROPNSpiritPROPNblessVERBwithADPabundanceNOUNtheDETChiefPROPNandCCONJhisPRONpeopleNOUN;PUNCTMayPROPNtheirPRONsonsNOUNandCCONJtheirPRONdaughtersNOUNincreaseVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfireNOUNeverADVburnVERBinADPtheirPRONteepeesNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SpakespeakPROPNNumber=Sing10 blessnsubj
2DuLuthDuLuthPROPNNumber=Sing1 Spakeflat
3,,PUNCT_1 Spakepunct
4----PUNCT_1 Spakepunct
5""PUNCT_6 Maypunct
6MayMayPROPNNumber=Sing10 blessnsubj
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Spiritdet
8GreatGreatPROPNNumber=Sing9 Spiritflat
9SpiritSpiritPROPNNumber=Sing6 Mayappos
10blessblessVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
11withwithADP_12 abundancecase
12abundanceabundanceNOUNNumber=Sing10 blessobl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Chiefdet
14ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing12 abundanceappos
15andandCCONJ_17 peoplecc
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 peoplenmod:poss
17peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur14 Chiefconj
18;;PUNCT_21 sonspunct
19MayMayPROPNNumber=Sing21 sonscompound
20theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 sonsnmod:poss
21sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur25 increasensubj
22andandCCONJ_24 daughterscc
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 daughtersnmod:poss
24daughtersdaughterNOUNNumber=Plur21 sonsconj
25increaseincreaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 blessconj
26,,PUNCT_31 burnpunct
27andandCCONJ_31 burncc
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 firedet
29firefireNOUNNumber=Sing31 burnobl
30evereverADVPronType=Ind31 burnadvmod
31burnburnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 blessconj
32ininADP_34 teepeescase
33theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 teepeesnmod:poss
34teepeesteepeeNOUNNumber=Plur31 burnobl
35..PUNCT_10 blesspunct
36""PUNCT_10 blesspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bless in a quotepresentSpakewith abundancevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2increase in a quotepresentpeople's May sons and people's daughtersvn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3burn in a quotepresentSpake not said herethe firedaughters's teepeesevervn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teepee=Location

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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