Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 36
Few white Americans would have noticed the horse’s foot so closely.
Who acts: Few white Americans · What happens: notice · To what, where: foot
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 (Few white Americans), 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 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Americans | amod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Americans | amod |
| 3 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 noticed | aux |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 closely | advmod |
| 12 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 6 noticed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | would · perfect | Few white Americans | the horse's foot | closely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=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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