Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 20
Among the Ojibways there is a tribe called the Cranes, who believe they are the children of these two cranes sent by the Great Spirit to the earth.
Who acts: tribe, Cranes · What happens: be, call, believe, send · To what, where: Ojibways, tribe, children, two cranes, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribe, Cranes), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Ojibways | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ojibways | det |
| 3 | Ojibways | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tribe | det |
| 7 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tribe | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cranes | det |
| 10 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Cranes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 children | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 children | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 children | det |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cranes | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 cranes | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 cranes | nummod |
| 21 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 children | nmod |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cranes | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Spirit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Spirit | det |
| 25 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Spirit | amod |
| 26 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 earth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 earth | det |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a tribe | the Ojibways; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among ojibway=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a tribe not said here | the Cranes xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | the Cranes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | cranes = crane | the children | of this two cranes | tree rules | |||
| 5 | send | participle | this two cranes not said here | the earth | by the Great Spirit | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to earth=Destination |
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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