Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 4
This is the part of the chant telling of his escape:
Who acts: This, chant, person · What happens: be, tell, escape · To what, where: part · 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 (This, chant, person), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 part | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chant | det |
| 7 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 chant | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 escape | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 escape | nmod:poss |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 telling | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the part | of the chant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the chant not said here | of person's escape | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | escape | person | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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