Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 39

He gave a strange war cry and shouted: “Sho-wain-ne-me-shing-nosa!”

Who acts: Osseo, wain ne · What happens: give, shout, nosa · To what, where: strange war cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Osseo, wain ne), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cry	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	compound
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouted	cc
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 nosa	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 ne	punct
11	Sho	sho	NOUN	_	13 wain	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Sho	punct
13	wain	wain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ne	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 wain	punct
15	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nosa	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 nosa	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
19	shing	shing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nosa	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 nosa	punct
21	nosa	nosa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 nosa	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 nosa	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Osseo	a strange war cry		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	Osseo not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nosa in a quote		wain ne		me nsubj	tree rules

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, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 39