Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 21
There was dancing and singing, for a good corn season was expected in return for the worship shown in the dance.
What happens: dance, sing, expect, show · To what, where: good corn season, return, worship, dance
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 dancing | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dancing | aux |
| 3 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 singing | cc |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dancing | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expected | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 expected | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 season | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 season | amod |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 season | compound |
| 11 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 expected | aux:pass |
| 13 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dancing | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 return | case |
| 15 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expected | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 worship | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worship | det |
| 18 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | nmod |
| 19 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 worship | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dance | det |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shown | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | there | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | expect | past · passive | a good corn season | return for the worship | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | participle | the worship not said here | the dance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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