Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 1
WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
What happens: tell · To what, where: WIGWAM STORIES, AMERICAN INDIANS · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening. 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 | WIGWAM | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 STORIES | compound |
| 2 | STORIES | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 INDIANS | nsubj |
| 3 | TOLD | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 STORIES | acl |
| 4 | BY | by | ADV | _ | 3 TOLD | advmod |
| 5 | NORTH | north | ADV | _ | 6 AMERICAN | advmod |
| 6 | AMERICAN | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 INDIANS | amod |
| 7 | INDIANS | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | WIGWAM STORIES not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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