Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 106
Little water spirits, so called by the Chippewas.
What happens: call · To what, where: Little water spirits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirits | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirits | compound |
| 3 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spirits | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Chippewas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Chippewas | det |
| 9 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Little water spirits not said here | by the Chippewas | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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