Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 36
She is in the Great Blue Lodge; the spirits of the four winds have carried my sister.
Who acts: sister, Blue Lodge · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: Blue Lodge, spirits
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, Blue Lodge), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Lodge | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lodge | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Lodge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lodge | det |
| 5 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Blue | flat |
| 6 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lodge | amod |
| 7 | Lodge | Lodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lodge | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirits | det |
| 10 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 winds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winds | det |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 winds | nummod |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spirits | nmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | aux |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Lodge | acl:relcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sister | the Blue Lodge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · perfect · passive | the Blue Lodge not said here | the spirits of the four winds | my sister obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sister=Value |
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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