Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 4

Gohweh!” meaning, “I am telling you!” as many times as there were enemies slain.

Who acts: Gohweh meaning, enemies slain · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you · 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 (Gohweh meaning, enemies slain), 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	Gohweh	Gohweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meaning	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Gohweh	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Gohweh	punct
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 telling	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 telling	aux
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 telling	iobj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 telling	obl:unmarked
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 were	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 telling	ccomp
19	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slain	compound
20	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 were	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Gohweh meaning		you		time	I nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	past	enemies slain			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 4