Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 45
They had their unions and their divisions of land according to nation, not according to family or person.
Who acts: pockets · What happens: have, accord, not accord · To what, where: unions, family
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 (pockets), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 unions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | unions | union | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 divisions | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 divisions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unions | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divisions | nmod |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 nation | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divisions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 according | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 according | advmod |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 family | case |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 according | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 person | cc |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 family | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | pockets = pocket | pockets's unions and pockets's divisions of land accord nation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not accord | gerund | pockets = pocket not said here | to family or person goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to family=Goal |
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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