Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 10

Some form of worship, either feast or dance, would then be held, and runners would after this be sent out again to ask what the echo god meant by not answering.

What happens: hold, send out, ask, god, mean, not answer · To what, where: form, runners, echo god, worship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 worship	case
4	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feast	punct
6	either	either	CCONJ	_	7 feast	cc:preconj
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dance	cc
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 form	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 held	aux
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 held	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 held	aux:pass
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sent	cc
17	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sent	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 would	obl
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	aux:pass
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 held	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 sent	compound:prt
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 sent	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ask	mark
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 god	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 god	det
29	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 god	compound
30	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ask	ccomp
31	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 god	acl
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 answering	mark
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 answering	advmod
34	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 meant	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would · passive	some form of worship	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	send out	would · passive	runners	again		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	god				what nsubj	tree rules
5	mean	participle	the echo god not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	not answer speech: assert	gerund				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	form		worship			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 10