Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 46
Many nations seem to have had wise laws.
Who acts: Many nations · What happens: seem, have · To what, where: wise laws
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 (Many nations), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nations | amod |
| 2 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laws | amod |
| 8 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Many nations | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive · perfect | Many nations not said here | wise laws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient |
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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