Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 31
The Indians have titles and descriptive names for the white people whom they know.
Who acts: Indians, names · What happens: have, know · To what, where: titles, white people
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 (Indians, 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 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 names | cc |
| 6 | descriptive | descriptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 names | amod |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 titles | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 names | nmod |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Indians | titles and descriptive names for the white people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | names = name | the white people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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