Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 25
“‘Now,’ said the Butterfly, ‘the lightning is yours; follow where it leads.’
Who acts: Butterfly, lightning · What happens: say, be, follow, lead · To what, where: yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Navajo Medicine Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterfly, lightning), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Now | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Butterfly | det |
| 8 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yours | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 yours | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lightning | det |
| 12 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yours | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 yours | cop |
| 14 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Butterfly | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 leads | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leads | nsubj |
| 19 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 follow | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Butterfly | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the lightning | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | lead in a quote | present | lightning | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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