Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 19
They do not have to go on the warpath, but will do it sometimes.
Who acts: men · What happens: not have, go, do · To what, where: warpath
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 warpath | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warpath | det |
| 9 | warpath | warpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the warpath | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on warpath=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | future | men = man not said here | warpath | sometimes property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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