Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 2

In one tribe of the Algonquin Indians the story is told that the North Star is the eye of Keneu, which is their name for eagle.

Who acts: North Star, eye · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: story, one tribe, eye, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Star, eye), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 tribe	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tribe	nummod
3	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Indians	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indians	det
6	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Indians	compound
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 tribe	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 eye	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Star	det
14	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Star	compound
15	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 eye	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eye	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Keneu	case
20	Keneu	Keneu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 eye	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 name	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 name	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eye	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 eagle	case
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 name	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the story	one tribe of the Algonquin Indians		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	present	the North Star	the eye and eye's name		of Keneu	tree rules
3	is a	present	the eye and eye's name	eye's name		for eagle	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, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 2