Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 4

The Indians claim that the strange plant that is now found on the Custer battle ground has been created by some spirit which knew of the mighty courage of the white brave with yellow hair.

Who acts: Indians, spirit · What happens: claim, find, create, know · To what, where: strange plant, Custer battle ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, 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	2 Indians	det
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 claim	nsubj
3	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 created	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plant	amod
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 created	nsubj:pass
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 found	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux:pass
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 found	advmod
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plant	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
14	Custer	Custer	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ground	compound
15	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ground	compound
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 created	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 created	aux:pass
19	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 claim	ccomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 spirit	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 spirit	det
22	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 created	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spirit	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 courage	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 courage	det
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 courage	amod
28	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knew	obl
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 brave	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brave	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 brave	amod
32	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 courage	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 hair	case
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hair	amod
35	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brave	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 claim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	the Indians					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	present · passive		the strange plant	the Custer battle ground	now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	create	present · perfect · passive	some spirit	the strange plant				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
4	know	past	some spirit				of the mighty courage	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of courage=Stimulus

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 4