Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 14

There was a great feast after the battle; the warriors sang and told how brave they had been.

Who acts: great feast, warriors · What happens: be, sing, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great feast, warriors), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feast	amod
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 battle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 battle	det
8	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 warriors	det
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sang	nsubj
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sang	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 brave	advmod
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	ccomp
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 been	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 been	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 brave	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great feast	there	after the battle		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the warriors				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the warriors not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle				brave property	tree rules

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, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 14