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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

casedetoblexpldetnsubjacldetxcomppunctnsubjacl:relclnsubjcopdetccompcasedetnummodnmodaclcasedetamodoblcasedetoblpunctrootAmongADPtheDETOjibwaysPROPNtherePRONisVERBaDETtribeNOUNcalledVERBtheDETCranesPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONbelieveVERBtheyPRONareAUXtheDETchildrenNOUNofADPtheseDETtwoNUMcranesNOUNsentVERBbyADPtheDETGreatADJSpiritPROPNtoADPtheDETearthNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AmongamongADP_3 Ojibwayscase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Ojibwaysdet
3OjibwaysOjibwayPROPNNumber=Plur5 isobl
4theretherePRONPronType=Dem5 isexpl
5isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 tribedet
7tribetribeNOUNNumber=Sing5 isnsubj
8calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 tribeacl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Cranesdet
10CranesCranePROPNNumber=Plur8 calledxcomp
11,,PUNCT_13 believepunct
12whowhoPRONPronType=Rel13 believensubj
13believebelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 Cranesacl:relcl
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 childrennsubj
15arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 childrencop
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 childrendet
17childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur13 believeccomp
18ofofADP_21 cranescase
19thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem21 cranesdet
20twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card21 cranesnummod
21cranescraneNOUNNumber=Plur17 childrennmod
22sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 cranesacl
23bybyADP_26 Spiritcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Spiritdet
25GreatgreatADJDegree=Pos26 Spiritamod
26SpiritSpiritPROPNNumber=Sing22 sentobl
27totoADP_29 earthcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 earthdet
29earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing22 sentobl
30..PUNCT_5 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta tribethe Ojibways; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among ojibway=Location
2callparticiplea tribe not said herethe Cranes xcompvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3believepresentthe Cranesvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4is apresentcranes = cranethe childrenof this two cranestree rules
5sendparticiplethis two cranes not said herethe earthby the Great Spiritvn 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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