Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 4
They are called into the council when the tribe goes to war.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: call, go · To what, where: men, council, war · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tribe), 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 | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 council | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 council | det |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tribe | det |
| 9 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 war | case |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | men = man | the council | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic into council=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the tribe | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location |
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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