Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 8

While planning an attack upon some other band runners were sent out ahead to call to the echo god and find out if it was his wish for them to fight.

Who acts: attack, runners · What happens: plan, send out, call, find out, be, fight · To what, where: attack, other band runners, echo god, wish · 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 (attack, runners), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 planning	mark
2	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sent	advcl
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 attack	det
4	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planning	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 sent	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 runners	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 runners	amod
8	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 runners	compound
9	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sent	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	aux:pass
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 sent	compound:prt
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 call	mark
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sent	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 god	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 god	det
18	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 god	compound
19	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 call	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wish	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wish	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wish	nmod:poss
27	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	xcomp
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 fight	mark
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fight	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 fight	mark
31	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wish	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	plan	gerund		a attack			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Topic
2	send out	past · passive		some other band runners		ahead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	call	to-infinitive			the echo god		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient
4	find out	infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	attack	Ohweh's wish		Ohweh nmod:poss	tree rules
6	fight	to-infinitive	runners = runner				vn battle-36.4-1 «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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 8