Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 23

The Leni Lennape stick records tell only that the country of the Great Serpent was conquered little by little.

Who acts: Leni stick records · What happens: tell, conquer · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leni stick records), 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	5 records	det
2	Leni	Leni	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 records	compound
3	Lennape	Lennape	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Leni	flat
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 records	compound
5	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 conquered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conquered	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Serpent	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Serpent	det
13	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Serpent	amod
14	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 country	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 conquered	aux:pass
16	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tell	advcl
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conquered	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 little	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conquered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Leni stick records						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conquer	past · passive		the country of the Great Serpent				by little	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 23