Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 21

“We will fight Weenk,” say the children, and then there is a battling of empty hands in the air, while they sing “Buzz, buzz, buzz.”

Who acts: We, children, battling · What happens: fight, say, be, sing · To what, where: Weenk, Buzz · 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 (We, children, battling), 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	_	4 fight	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fight	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	aux
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	advcl
5	Weenk	Weenk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fight	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 is	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 is	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 battling	det
17	battling	battling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 battling	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sing	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 sing	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sing	nsubj
27	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Buzz	punct
29	Buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 buzz	punct
31	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Buzz	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 buzz	punct
33	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Buzz	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 Buzz	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fight in a quote	future	We	Weenk			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weenk=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	imperative	the children				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	be	present	a battling of empty hands in the air		there	then	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	present	children = child	Buzz and buzz and buzz			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location buzz=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, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 21