Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 1
A great hunter among the Chippewas, or Ojibways, wanted his son to secure a powerful spirit to protect him in war and all danger.
Who acts: great hunter, son · What happens: want, secure, protect · To what, where: son, powerful spirit, hunter, war
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great hunter, son), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunter | amod |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 Chippewas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Chippewas | det |
| 6 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunter | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ojibways | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Ojibways | cc |
| 9 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Chippewas | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunter | punct |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 secure | mark |
| 15 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spirit | det |
| 17 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spirit | amod |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 secure | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 protect | mark |
| 20 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 secure | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 protect | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 war | case |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protect | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 danger | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 danger | det |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 war | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | a great hunter among the Chippewas or Ojibways | hunter's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | secure not said to happen | to-infinitive | hunter's son not said here | a powerful spirit | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition spirit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | hunter's son not said here | hunter | war and all danger | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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