Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 55
They are no longer braves but squaws, for they must plant corn and watch it.
Who acts: deer · What happens: not be, plant, watch · To what, where: longer braves, corn
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 (deer), 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 | 5 braves | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 braves | cop |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 braves | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 braves | amod |
| 5 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 squaws | cc |
| 7 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 braves | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plant | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 plant | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 plant | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 plant | aux |
| 12 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 braves | parataxis |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plant | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watch | cc |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 plant | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 watch | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 braves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | deer | longer braves but squaws | squaws conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plant | must | deer | corn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | deer not said here | corn | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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