Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 40
At the gateway the Indian raised his voice and cried: “I am here.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: raise, cry, be · To what, where: voice, gateway · 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 (Indian), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 gateway | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gateway | det |
| 3 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indian | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 raised | nsubj |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 here | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 here | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 here | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 here | cop |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the Indian | west's voice | the gateway | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at gateway=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Indian not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Indian = indian | here property | tree rules |
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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