Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 35
The professor did not say a word, but handed them his case of roots and plants.
Who acts: professor · What happens: not say, hand · To what, where: word, words · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 professor | det |
| 2 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 handed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 handed | cc |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 case | nmod:poss |
| 13 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 roots | case |
| 15 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 case | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plants | cc |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roots | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | the professor | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | the professor not said here | words = word | professor's case of roots and plants obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination case=Theme |
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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