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title: At my lodge-fire his pipe shall be lit, when the White Chief returns… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, w
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 48

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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.

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

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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 (White Chief, chief, my), 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:pg8122:12:49
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kathága	Kathága	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	On	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	tee	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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