Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 9
If no answer came to repeated calls, the attack would be given up for a time.
Who acts: answer · What happens: come, repeat, give up · To what, where: repeated calls, attack
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 (answer), 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 | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 answer | det |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 calls | case |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 calls | amod |
| 7 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 attack | det |
| 10 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 given | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | no answer | repeated calls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to call=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | give up | would · passive | the attack | time | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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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