Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 34
Early travelers found some tribes expecting the Great Spirit to come among them again in the shape of palefaced men.
Who acts: Early travelers, tribes · What happens: find, expect, come · To what, where: tribes, Great Spirit, shape
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Early travelers, tribes), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 travelers | amod |
| 2 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 tribes | det |
| 5 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | expecting | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 tribes | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Spirit | det |
| 8 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Spirit | flat |
| 9 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 expecting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 expecting | advcl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shape | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shape | det |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 19 | palefaced | palefaced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shape | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Early travelers | some tribes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | some tribes not said here | the Great Spirit | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | some tribes not said here | the shape of palefaced men | again | among men = man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |
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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