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title: May the feet of my brother be swift, till they bring him again to ou… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, with its dep
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 47

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:12:48
# text = 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.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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