Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 11

Henry W. Longfellow read them with so much interest that he told them again in his beautiful poem of Hiawatha, weaving into the story the bride Minnehaha of whom the Indians have no legend.

Who acts: Henry, Indians · What happens: read, tell, weave, have · To what, where: legends, beautiful poem, story, legend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, Indians), 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	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj
2	W.	W.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	flat
3	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	flat
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 interest	case
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 interest	amod
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 poem	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 poem	nmod:poss
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 poem	amod
18	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Hiawatha	case
20	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 poem	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weaving	punct
22	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 told	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 story	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 story	det
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weaving	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bride	det
27	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 story	appos
28	Minnehaha	Minnehaha	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bride	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 whom	case
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bride	nmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Indians	det
32	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 whom	acl:relcl
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 legend	det
35	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Henry	legends = legend				with much interest	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	Henry		legends = legend	Henry's beautiful poem of Hiawatha	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	weave	gerund	Henry not said here			the story			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into story=Destination
4	have	present	the Indians	no legend					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Patient

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, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 11

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 11