Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 25
The Sioux have names for their boys or girls according to their order of birth.
Who acts: Sioux, names · What happens: have, accord, order · To what, where: names, birth
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sioux, names), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sioux | det |
| 2 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 boys | nmod:poss |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 names | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 girls | cc |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boys | conj |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 order | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 order | nmod:poss |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boys | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 birth | case |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 order | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Sioux | names | for names's boys accord names's order of birth or girls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | order | names = name | birth | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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