Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 1
The Great Spirit whispered to the heart of a warrior that he must go and seek the Happy Hunting Grounds.
Who acts: Great Spirit, Spirit · What happens: whisper, go, seek · To what, where: heart, Happy Hunting Grounds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Spirit, Spirit), 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 | 3 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Spirit | amod |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | nsubj |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 warrior | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 warrior | det |
| 10 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 whispered | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seek | cc |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Grounds | det |
| 18 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Grounds | amod |
| 19 | Hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Grounds | compound |
| 20 | Grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Great Spirit | the heart of a warrior | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to heart=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | must | Spirit | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | Spirit not said here | the Happy Hunting Grounds | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Theme |
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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