Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, sentence 31
There is another Great Spirit who lives in the sun. These two Great Spirits know each other.
Who acts: Great Spirit, These · What happens: be, live, know · To what, where: sun., each
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 (Great Spirit, These), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 Spirit | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Spirit | amod |
| 5 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lives | nsubj |
| 7 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Spirit | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sun. | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun. | det |
| 10 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | obl |
| 11 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 know | nsubj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Spirits | nummod |
| 13 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Spirits | amod |
| 14 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lives | parataxis |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | another Great Spirit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | another Great Spirit | the sun. | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun.=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | present | These | each | two Great Spirits nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=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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