Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 12
The Great Spirit heard his prayer and sent the south wind.
Who acts: Great Spirit, Spirit · What happens: hear, send, pray · To what, where: prayer, south wind
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Spirit, 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 | 3 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Spirit | amod |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 10 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wind | compound |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Great Spirit | Spirit's prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Great Spirit not said here | the south wind | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | Spirit | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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