Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 2

They will repeat a statement in different ways, so that their listeners will be sure to understand; this makes the stories they tell sound very queer sometimes.

Who acts: foreigners, listeners, this, stories · What happens: repeat, be, understand, make, tell, sound · To what, where: statement, different ways, stories · 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 (foreigners, listeners, this, stories), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 repeat	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	aux
3	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 statement	det
5	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repeat	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ways	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ways	amod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 sure	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sure	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 listeners	nmod:poss
13	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sure	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 repeat	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 understand	mark
18	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 makes	punct
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 makes	nsubj
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stories	det
23	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 makes	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stories	acl:relcl
26	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 makes	xcomp
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 queer	advmod
28	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 makes	xcomp
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 makes	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	future	foreigners = foreigner	a statement	different ways		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Eventuality
2	is	future	foreigners's listeners			sure property	tree rules
3	understand	to-infinitive	foreigners's listeners not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	present	this	the stories		queer, sometimes property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	present	foreigners = foreigner	the stories not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
6	sound	present	the stories not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 2