Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 17
The Indians will have nothing but absolute truth at these councils.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing, councils
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 (Indians), 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 | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 truth | cc |
| 7 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 truth | amod |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 councils | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 councils | det |
| 11 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | the Indians | nothing absolute truth | this councils | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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