Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 3
When at war with other Indian nations or tribes, the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois would go out and call: “Gohweh!
What happens: go out, call · To what, where: Gohweh, war · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 go | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 war | case |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 nations | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nations | amod |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nations | amod |
| 7 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 war | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 tribes | cc |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nations | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chiefs | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nations | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 warriors | cc |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nations | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Iroquois | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Iroquois | det |
| 17 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 warriors | nmod |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 call | cc |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gohweh | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gohweh | punct |
| 25 | Gohweh | Gohweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | would | Gohweh | war with other Indian nations or tribes and the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | call | infinitive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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