Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, sentence 16
All the tribes believe that the water spirits cut this face on the rock.
Who acts: tribes, water spirits · What happens: believe, cut · To what, where: face, rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribes, water spirits), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tribes | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tribes | det |
| 3 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirits | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spirits | compound |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | all tribes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cut | present | the water spirits | this face | the rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |
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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