Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 27
“Unktahe, the spirit of the water.”
To what, where: Unktahe
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unktahe | punct |
| 2 | Unktahe | Unktahe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spirit | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spirit | det |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Unktahe | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spirit | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unktahe | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unktahe | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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