Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 2
The Iroquois seem to have been the only nation to worship with feast and dance the echo god of the hills.
Who acts: Iroquois · What happens: seem, be, worship, dance · To what, where: only nation, echo god
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 (Iroquois), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Iroquois | det |
| 2 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 nation | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nation | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 nation | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nation | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nation | amod |
| 9 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 worship | mark |
| 11 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nation | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 feast | case |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worship | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dance | cc |
| 15 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worship | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 god | det |
| 17 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 god | compound |
| 18 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dance | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hills | det |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 god | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the Iroquois | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the Iroquois not said here | the only nation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | worship | to-infinitive | the Iroquois not said here | with feast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | dance | infinitive | the Iroquois not said here | the echo god of the hills | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location god=Theme |
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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