Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 14
The later stories herein told, that were gathered from the Chippewas in 1895, 1896, and 1900, prove their unchanging love for the tales of this imaginary hero.
Who acts: later stories, 1900, STORIES, imaginary hero · What happens: tell, gather, prove, love · To what, where: that, Chippewas, unchanging love · 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: who acts (later stories, 1900, STORIES, imaginary hero), 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 stories | det |
| 2 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | herein | herein | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gathered | aux:pass |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Chippewas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Chippewas | det |
| 12 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gathered | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1895 | case |
| 14 | 1895 | 1895 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 gathered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1896 | punct |
| 16 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1895 | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prove | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prove | cc |
| 19 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 prove | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1900 | punct |
| 21 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 love | nmod:poss |
| 23 | unchanging | unchanging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 love | amod |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prove | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 tales | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tales | det |
| 27 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 prove | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 hero | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 hero | det |
| 30 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hero | amod |
| 31 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tales | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the later stories | herein property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | that | the Chippewas | in 1895 | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from chippewa=Source | |||
| 3 | prove | infinitive | 1900 | STORIES's unchanging love | for the tales of this imaginary hero | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 4 | love | STORIES = story | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | tell | this imaginary hero | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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