Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 9
The warriors were told that whoever should bring the bird into the camp would win a great prize, and that prize was the daughter of the head chief.
Who acts: whoever, camp, prize · What happens: tell, bring, win, be · To what, where: warriors, bird, great prize, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, camp, prize), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 camp | det |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 win | aux |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bring | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prize | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prize | amod |
| 18 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 daughter | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 daughter | cc |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 prize | det |
| 22 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 daughter | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chief | det |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | compound |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the warriors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | should | whoever | the bird | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination | ||||
| 3 | win | would | the camp | a great prize | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | that prize | the daughter | of the head chief | 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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