Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 99
Owayneo, the Great Spirit, called him.
What happens: call · To what, where: Owayneo, Spirit · 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: 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 | Owayneo | Owayneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Spirit | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Spirit | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Spirit | amod |
| 5 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Owayneo | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Owayneo | acl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owayneo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Owayneo not said here | Spirit | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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