Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 49

A wise old Indian was once told that white men were beginning to think they had found where the Indian came from; that the place was northern China.

Who acts: that, white men, Indians, Indian, place · What happens: tell, man, begin, think, find, come · To what, where: wise old Indian, northern China · 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 (that, white men, Indians, Indian), 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	4 Indian	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Indian	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Indian	amod
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 men	nsubj
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beginning	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beginning	aux
12	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 think	mark
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beginning	xcomp
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 think	ccomp
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 came	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Indian	det
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	advcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	21 came	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 China	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 China	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 China	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 China	cop
28	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 China	amod
29	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		a wise old Indian	once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	man		that			tree rules
3	begin	past · progressive	white men			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	white men not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find	past · perfect	Indians = indian			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the Indian			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	the place	northern China		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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 49

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 49