Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 19
The council declared that Ietan was telling false tales to frighten the Mandans.
Who acts: council, Ietan · What happens: declare, tell, frighten · To what, where: false tales, Mandans · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (council, Ietan), 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 council | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 telling | mark |
| 5 | Ietan | Ietan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 telling | aux |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 declared | advcl |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tales | amod |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 telling | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 frighten | mark |
| 11 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 telling | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mandans | det |
| 13 | Mandans | Mandan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 frighten | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the council | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | Ietan | false tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | frighten | to-infinitive | Ietan not said here | the Mandans | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mandan=Experiencer |
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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