Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 30
Waska and Weharka are for the fourth and fifth girls of a family, and other names are provided for a greater number of children.
Who acts: Waska, fourth girls · What happens: be, provide · To what, where: other names
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 (Waska, fourth girls), 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 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 girls | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Weharka | cc |
| 3 | Weharka | Weharka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waska | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 girls | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 girls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girls | det |
| 7 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 girls | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fifth | cc |
| 9 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fourth | conj |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 girls | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 provided | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 provided | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 names | amod |
| 17 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 provided | aux:pass |
| 19 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girls | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 number | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 22 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 number | amod |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 provided | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 children | case |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 girls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Waska and Weharka | for the fourth girls; of a family | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | provide | present · passive | the fourth girls not said here | other names | for a greater number of children | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for number=Beneficiary |
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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