Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 6
These stories, told by and about the Indians, have been gathered from various sources.
What happens: tell, gather · To what, where: stories, Indians, various sources · 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stories | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Indians | case |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Indians | cc |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Indians | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Indians | det |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stories | punct |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gathered | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 gathered | aux:pass |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sources | case |
| 15 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sources | amod |
| 16 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | this stories not said here | the Indians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent indian=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | gather | present · perfect · passive | this stories | various sources | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from source=Source |
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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