Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 71
A spirit, whether good or evil.
To what, where: spirit
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 good | mark |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spirit | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 evil | cc |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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