Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 1
The moon goes through its changes from new moon to new moon in twenty-eight days.
Who acts: moon · What happens: go, change · To what, where: changes, new moon
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 changes | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 changes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 moon | case |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moon | amod |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changes | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 moon | case |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moon | amod |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eight | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 twenty | punct |
| 16 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the moon | moon's changes from new moon | day | to new moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through change=Initial_Location to moon=Destination | ||
| 2 | change | moon | new moon | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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