Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 4

The Great Spirit told them when they were suited with some spot to fold their wings closely to their sides and wait; a change would come over them.

Who acts: Great Spirit, change · What happens: tell, suit, fold, wait, come over · To what, where: cranes, wings · 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 (Great Spirit, change), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spirit	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Spirit	amod
3	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 suited	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 suited	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 suited	aux:pass
9	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 spot	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 spot	det
12	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suited	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fold	mark
14	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 suited	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fold	obj
17	closely	closely	ADV	_	14 fold	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sides	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sides	nmod:poss
20	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 closely	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wait	cc
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fold	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 change	det
25	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
28	over	over	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Great Spirit		cranes = crane		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	suit	past · passive		cranes = crane		with some spot	tree rules
3	fold	to-infinitive		cranes's wings		closely property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come over	would	a change	cranes = crane		over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 4

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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 4