Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 13
The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or French renderings of the same Algonquin word.
Who acts: various names · What happens: be, name, render · To what, where: Missaba, same Algonquin word
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: who acts (various names), 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 | 3 names | det |
| 2 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 names | amod |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 English | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Missaba | case |
| 5 | Missaba | Missaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mesaba | punct |
| 7 | Mesaba | Mesaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Missaba | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Michabo | punct |
| 9 | Michabo | Michabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Missaba | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 English | cop |
| 11 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 12 English | advmod |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 renderings | cc |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 renderings | amod |
| 15 | renderings | rendering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 English | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 word | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 word | amod |
| 19 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 word | compound |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 renderings | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 English | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the various names of Missaba and Mesaba and Michabo | French renderings of the same Algonquin word conj; english, merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | Missaba and Mesaba and Michabo | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | render | the same Algonquin word | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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