Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 24
The spirit in the south sends the warm wind and gives the red man corn, melons, and tobacco.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: send, give · To what, where: warm wind, red man corn
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 south | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 south | det |
| 5 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
| 6 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wind | amod |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sends | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gives | cc |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sends | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corn | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 corn | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | compound |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 melons | punct |
| 17 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 corn | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tobacco | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tobacco | cc |
| 20 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the spirit in the south | the warm wind | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | the spirit in the south not said here | the red man corn and melons and tobacco | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
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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