Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 37
They moved the village to another place, but the evil spirit followed them.
Who acts: medicines, evil spirit · What happens: move, follow · To what, where: village, place, medicines
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medicines, evil spirit), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spirit | amod |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | medicines = medicine | the village | another place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent village=Theme to place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the evil spirit | medicines = medicine | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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