Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 29
A certain professor belonging to a well-known eastern college had reason to be thankful for this trait not many years ago.
Who acts: certain professor · What happens: belong, know, have, be · To what, where: reason
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 (certain professor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 professor | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 professor | amod |
| 3 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 4 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 professor | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 college | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 college | det |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 known | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 college | amod |
| 10 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 college | amod |
| 11 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonging | obl |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 thankful | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thankful | cop |
| 16 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reason | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trait | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 trait | det |
| 19 | trait | trait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thankful | obl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 trait | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | a certain professor not said here | to a known eastern college | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a certain professor | reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | a certain professor not said here | reason not said here | for this trait; thankful property | tree rules |
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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