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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 30

Adapted from Powell’s Report.

Who acts: Powell · What happens: adapt, report · To what, where: Report

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 (Powell), 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

casenmod:posscaseoblpunctrootAdaptedVERBfromADPPowellPROPN’sPARTReportNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AdaptedadaptVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
2fromfromADP_5 Reportcase
3PowellPowellPROPNNumber=Sing5 Reportnmod:poss
4’s'sPART_3 Powellcase
5ReportreportNOUNNumber=Sing1 Adaptedobl
6..PUNCT_1 Adaptedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1adaptparticiplePowell's Reportvn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2reportPowellnom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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