Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 53
Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I go to this council great sorrow will come to me.
Who acts: Hiawatha · What happens: answer, show, go, come · To what, where: Holder, council great sorrow, Hiawatha · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiawatha), 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 | Hiawatha | Hiawatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 shown | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shown | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Holder | det |
| 6 | Holder | Holder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Heavens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Heavens | det |
| 9 | Heavens | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Holder | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shown | aux |
| 11 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 shown | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sorrow | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sorrow | nsubj |
| 19 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sorrow | compound |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sorrow | amod |
| 21 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 shown | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Hiawatha | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Holder of the Heavens | me obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Hiawatha | council great sorrow this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sorrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | future | Hiawatha | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=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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