Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 68
The Great Manitou talked to the Chippewa chief in a soft wind.
Who acts: Great Manitou · What happens: talk
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Manitou), 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 Manitou | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Manitou | amod |
| 3 | Manitou | Manitou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | Chippewa | Chippewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | compound |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wind | amod |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the Great Manitou | to the Chippewa chief in a soft wind | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent |
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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