Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 20
It seems to be a good chance for the deformed to win respect from the physically perfect.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, be, deform, win · To what, where: good chance
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chance | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chance | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chance | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chance | amod |
| 7 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 respect | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 respect | det |
| 10 | deformed | deform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 respect | amod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 win | mark |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 deformed | xcomp |
| 13 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chance | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 perfect | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 perfect | det |
| 16 | physically | physically | ADV | _ | 17 perfect | advmod |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 respect | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a good chance | for the deformed respect from the perfect | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deform | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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