Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 16
They no longer offer him the worship of the feast and dance.
Who acts: warpath, feast · What happens: offer, worship · To what, where: worship, Iroquois
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 (warpath, feast), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offer | nsubj |
| 2 | no | no | ADV | _ | 3 longer | advmod |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 offer | advmod |
| 4 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offer | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 worship | det |
| 7 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offer | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worship | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dance | cc |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | infinitive | warpath | the worship of the feast and dance | Iroquois | long property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal worship=Theme | ||
| 2 | worship | the feast and dance | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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