Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 15

As they have no written language, their legends may change a little; the same story may be told in different ways, and the words they use may have various forms.

Who acts: stories, legends, words · What happens: have, write, change, tell, use · To what, where: written language, little, same story, different ways, words, various forms · 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 (stories, legends, words), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 change	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 language	det
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 language	amod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legends	nmod:poss
9	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 change	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 change	aux
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 change	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj:pass
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 change	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ways	case
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ways	amod
23	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 words	det
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nsubj
29	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 words	acl:relcl
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	conj
32	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 forms	amod
33	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	stories = story	no written language		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient
2	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	may	stories's legends	a little		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	may · passive		the same story	different ways	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	use	present	stories = story	the words not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
6	have	may	the words	various forms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 15