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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 65

Their name is sometimes spelled Leni-Lenapes.

Who acts: tribes · What happens: spell, name · To what, where: name

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: who acts (tribes), 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

nmod:possnsubj:passaux:passadvmodcompoundpunctobjpunctrootTheirPRONnameNOUNisAUXsometimesADVspelledVERBLeniPROPN-PUNCTLenapesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 namenmod:poss
2namenameNOUNNumber=Sing5 spellednsubj:pass
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 spelledaux:pass
4sometimessometimesADVPronType=Ind5 spelledadvmod
5spelledspellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6LeniLeniPROPNNumber=Sing8 Lenapescompound
7--PUNCT_6 Lenipunct
8LenapeslenapeNOUNNumber=Plur5 spelledobj
9..PUNCT_5 spelledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spellpresent · passivetribes's nameLeni Lenapes obj; sometimes propertyvn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme lenape=Manner
2nametribes = tribenom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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