Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 21
No such number of white people could live in a land where there were no buffalo.
Who acts: such number · What happens: live · To what, where: land
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 (such number), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 number | det |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | aux |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 were | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 land | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 buffalo | det |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | could | no such number of white people | a land | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
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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