Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 7
When they were on the warpath and night overtook them, the scattered ones were gathered in by using the call to the echo god.
Who acts: warriors, warpath · What happens: be, overtake, gather, use · To what, where: warpath, warriors, scattered ones, call
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 (warriors, warpath), 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 | 6 warpath | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 warpath | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 warpath | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 warpath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warpath | det |
| 6 | warpath | warpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overtook | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 night | cc |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warpath | conj |
| 9 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 overtook | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gathered | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ones | det |
| 13 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gathered | aux:pass |
| 16 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 overtook | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 gathered | obl |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 using | mark |
| 19 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gathered | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 call | det |
| 21 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 using | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 god | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 24 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 god | compound |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | warriors = warrior | the warpath and night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | the warpath and night | warriors = warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gather | past · passive | the scattered ones | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | use | gerund | the call | to the echo god | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient |
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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