Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 6

If any of their own people were slain, the cry was, “Ohweh!” which meant, “Our own!”

Who acts: any, cry · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: Ohweh

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 (any, cry), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 slain	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 slain	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 people	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 any	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slain	cop
8	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meant	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cry	det
11	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Ohweh	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Ohweh	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ohweh	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Ohweh	punct
15	Ohweh	Ohweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 slain	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Ohweh	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 meant	nsubj
19	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 own	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 own	punct
22	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 own	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meant	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 own	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	any of warriors's own people		slain property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	the cry	Ohweh		tree rules
3	mean	past			which nsubj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 6