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title: And long shall ye live in the land, and the spirits of earth and the… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: And long shall ye live in the land, and the spirits of earth and the waters Shall come to your aid, at command, with the power of invisible magic. Who acts: long, spirits. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 88

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And long shall ye live in the land, and the spirits of earth and the waters Shall come to your aid, at command, with the power of invisible magic.

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**Who acts:** long, spirits · **What happens:** live, come · **To what, where:** land, aid

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long, spirits), 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:pg8122:11:88
# text = And long shall ye live in the land, and the spirits of earth and the waters Shall come to your aid, at command, with the power of invisible magic.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | shall | long |  |  | the land |  | ye *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **come** | shall | the spirits of earth and the waters |  |  | your aid and command |  | with the power of invisible magic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_Location |

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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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