Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 18
“Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister will say as she picks up a tiny hair.
Who acts: war club, sister · What happens: be, lose, say, pick up · To what, where: tiny hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war club, sister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 say | parataxis |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 club | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 club | compound |
| 6 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 club | flat |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 manitous | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 manitous | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manitous | amod |
| 11 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 manitous | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 club | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sister | det |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 picks | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 picks | nsubj |
| 22 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | ccomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 picks | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hair | det |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 26 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 picks | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a war club | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | a war club not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | future | a sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pick up | present | sister | a tiny hair | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic |
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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