Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 11
They seem to have almost an instinct in finding their way home.
Who acts: Flocks · What happens: seem, have, find · To what, where: instinct, way
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seem | xcomp |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 instinct | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 instinct | det |
| 7 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 finding | mark |
| 9 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 have | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finding | obj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 finding | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Flocks = flock | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Flocks = flock not said here | a instinct | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | Flocks = flock not said here | Flocks's way | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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