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title: And often they bade him to pray this marvelous spirit to answer, And… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And often they bade him to pray this marvelous spirit to answer, And tell where the sly Chippeway might be ambushed and slain in his forests. Who acts: hunters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3, sentence 25

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And often they bade him to pray this marvelous spirit to answer, And tell where the sly Chippeway might be ambushed and slain in his forests.

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**Who acts:** hunters · **What happens:** bade, pray, answer, tell, ambush, slay · **To what, where:** Father, marvelous spirit, sly Chippeway, forests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:10:25
# text = And often they bade him to pray this marvelous spirit to answer, And tell where the sly Chippeway might be ambushed and slain in his forests.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Chippeway	Chippeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	ambushed	ambush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | hunters *= hunter* | Father |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pray** | to-infinitive | hunters *= hunter* *not said here* | this marvelous spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | hunters *= hunter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | hunters *= hunter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **ambush** | might · passive |  | the sly Chippeway |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **slay** | participle |  |  |  | Father's forests |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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