Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 3
Their method of lying in ambush in war times calls out all their hidden powers in every line.
Who acts: method · What happens: call out · To what, where: hidden powers, line
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 (method), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 method | nmod:poss |
| 2 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lying | case |
| 4 | lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 method | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ambush | case |
| 6 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | compound |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ambush | nmod |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 calls | compound:prt |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 powers | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 powers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 powers | amod |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 calls | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 line | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 line | det |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 powers | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | present | Indians's method of lying in ambush in war times | Indians's hidden powers | every line | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Recipient |
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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