Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 8

There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow’s inspiration.

Who acts: adaptations, compiler, writings, Schoolcraft, inspiration · What happens: be, go, work, write · To what, where: works, inspiration

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 (adaptations, compiler, writings, Schoolcraft), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 adaptations	det
4	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 poem	case
6	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 poem	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Longfellow	case
8	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adaptations	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Hiawatha	case
10	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 poem	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 compiler	det
14	compiler	compiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 are	conj
17	directly	directly	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 works	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 works	det
20	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Schoolcraft	case
22	Schoolcraft	Schoolcraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 works	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 inspiration	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 writings	nmod:poss
25	writings	writing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 inspiration	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 inspiration	cop
27	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 inspiration	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Longfellow	case
29	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 works	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	no adaptations from Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present · perfect	the compiler		the works of Schoolcraft and Longfellow's inspiration	directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	Longfellow's inspiration's writings	Longfellow's inspiration		Longfellow nmod:poss	tree rules
4	work		Schoolcraft				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent
5	write		Longfellow's inspiration				nom writing «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 8