Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 10
Flocks of birds sometimes help to guide them.
Who acts: Flocks · What happens: help, guide · To what, where: Flocks
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flocks), 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 | Flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 birds | case |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flocks | nmod |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 guide | mark |
| 7 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 guide | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Flocks of birds | sometimes property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guide | to-infinitive | Flocks of birds not said here | Flocks = flock | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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