Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 20
If you were spending the year among the Sioux or Dakotas, little Winona might tell you that January is the Hard Moon.
Who acts: you, January · What happens: spend, tell, be · To what, where: you, Hard 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 (you, January), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 spending | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 spending | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spending | aux |
| 4 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tell | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spending | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 Sioux | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sioux | det |
| 9 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spending | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Dakotas | cc |
| 11 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sioux | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Winona | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Winona | amod |
| 14 | Winona | Winona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sioux | conj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 Moon | mark |
| 19 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Moon | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Moon | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moon | det |
| 22 | Hard | Hard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Moon | compound |
| 23 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | you | year | among the Sioux or Dakotas and little Winona | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | might | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | January | the Hard Moon | tree rules |
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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