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title: Spake DuLuth,--"May the Great Spirit bless with abundance the Chief… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, 
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 54

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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."

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

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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 (Spake, May sons), 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:pg8122:12:55
# text = 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."
1	Spake	speak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	DuLuth	DuLuth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	bless	bless	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	increase	increase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | present | Spake |  |  |  |  | with abundance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **increase** *in a quote* | present | people's May sons and people's daughters |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | present | Spake *not said here* | the fire |  | daughters's teepees | ever |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teepee=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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