Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 11
If by any means an answer came to their wails and calls, then the attack would be made.
Who acts: answer, runners · What happens: mean, come, make, wail · To what, where: wails, attack · 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: who acts (answer, runners), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 means | mark |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 any | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 means | obl |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wails | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wails | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wails | wail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 calls | cc |
| 12 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wails | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 made | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 attack | det |
| 16 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | by any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a answer | runners's wails and calls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wail=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make | would · passive | the attack | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | wail | runners = runner | nom wail «communication intransitive»: poss=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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