Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 2
The Indians reckon their time of year by these changes in the Night Sun, as they call the moon.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: reckon, call · To what, where: moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Indians), 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 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckon | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 changes | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 changes | det |
| 10 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckon | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 13 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sun | compound |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 changes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 call | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckon | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | the Indians | time | by this changes in the Night Sun | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | call | present | Indians = indian | the moon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moon=Recipient |
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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