Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 2

It seems strange that the Iroquois should have named our Big Dipper with the other name by which we also know it.

Who acts: It, we · What happens: seem, name, know · To what, where: Iroquois

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 named	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Iroquois	det
6	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 named	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 named	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 named	aux
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seems	advcl
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Dipper	nmod:poss
11	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dipper	amod
12	Dipper	dipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 named	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 name	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 name	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 name	amod
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dipper	nmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 know	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 name	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It		strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	name	should · perfect · passive		the Iroquois	our Big Dipper with the other name xcomp	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	know	present	we	Iroquois	by the other name	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 2