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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 52

The Dakotas believe that their god of storm lives on Thunder Cap, a high promontory in Minnesota overlooking Lake Superior; from here he sends the rain, hail, or snow.

Who acts: Dakotas, god, high promontory · What happens: believe, live, overlook, send · To what, where: Thunder Cap, Lake, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Dakotas, god, high promontory), 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

detnsubjmarknmod:possnsubjcasenmodccompcasecompoundoblpunctdetamodapposcasenmodaclobjflatpunctcaseoblnsubjconjdetobjpunctconjpunctccoblpunctrootTheDETDakotasNOUNbelieveVERBthatSCONJtheirPRONgodNOUNofADPstormNOUNlivesVERBonADPThunderPROPNCapPROPN,PUNCTaDEThighADJpromontoryNOUNinADPMinnesotaPROPNoverlookingVERBLakePROPNSuperiorPROPN;PUNCTfromADPhereADVhePRONsendsVERBtheDETrainNOUN,PUNCThailNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJsnowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Dakotasdet
2DakotasdakotaNOUNNumber=Plur3 believensubj
3believebelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_9 livesmark
5theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 godnmod:poss
6godgodNOUNNumber=Sing9 livesnsubj
7ofofADP_8 stormcase
8stormstormNOUNNumber=Sing6 godnmod
9livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 believeccomp
10ononADP_12 Capcase
11ThunderThunderPROPNNumber=Sing12 Capcompound
12CapCapPROPNNumber=Sing9 livesobl
13,,PUNCT_16 promontorypunct
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 promontorydet
15highhighADJDegree=Pos16 promontoryamod
16promontorypromontoryNOUNNumber=Sing12 Capappos
17ininADP_18 Minnesotacase
18MinnesotaMinnesotaPROPNNumber=Sing16 promontorynmod
19overlookingoverlookVERBVerbForm=Ger16 promontoryacl
20LakeLakePROPNNumber=Sing19 overlookingobj
21SuperiorSuperiorPROPNNumber=Sing20 Lakeflat
22;;PUNCT_26 sendspunct
23fromfromADP_24 herecase
24herehereADVPronType=Dem26 sendsobl
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sendsnsubj
26sendssendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 believeconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 raindet
28rainrainNOUNNumber=Sing26 sendsobj
29,,PUNCT_30 hailpunct
30hailhailNOUNNumber=Sing28 rainconj
31,,PUNCT_33 snowpunct
32ororCCONJ_33 snowcc
33snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing26 sendsobl
34..PUNCT_3 believepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1believepresentthe Dakotasvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2livepresentspears's god of stormThunder Capvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cap=Location
3overlookgerunda high promontory in Minnesota not said hereLakevn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
4sendpresentGodthe rain and hailsnow oblvn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rain=Theme from here=Initial_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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