Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 57

They have an old, old prophecy among many tribes, “that the Great Manitou will some day send away the white race; the whole earth shall be given to the Indians.”

Who acts: deer · What happens: have, send away, give · To what, where: old old prophecy, Great Manitou, whole earth, Indians

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prophecy	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prophecy	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prophecy	amod
7	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 tribes	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tribes	amod
10	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prophecy	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 given	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 given	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 send	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Manitou	det
15	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Manitou	amod
16	Manitou	Manitou	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 send	obl:unmarked
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 send	aux
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 send	obl:unmarked
20	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 given	advcl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 send	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 race	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 race	amod
24	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 send	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 send	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 earth	amod
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	nsubj:pass
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 given	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 given	aux:pass
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tribes	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Indians	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Indians	det
34	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 given	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	deer	a old old prophecy			among many tribes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Patient
2	send away in a quote	future		the Great Manitou		day	the white race obj; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme
3	give in a quote	shall · passive		the whole earth	the Indians			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to indian=Recipient

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.

Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 57