Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 21
February is when the braves and the boys take their dogs and hunt the raccoon; hence, they call it the ’Coon Moon.
Who acts: February, braves · What happens: be, take, hunt, call · To what, where: dogs, raccoon · 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 (February, braves), 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 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 when | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 when | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 take | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 braves | det |
| 5 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boys | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 braves | conj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hunt | cc |
| 13 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 raccoon | det |
| 15 | raccoon | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hunt | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 17 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moon | det |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Moon | punct |
| 24 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Moon | compound |
| 25 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 call | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | February | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the braves and the boys | braves's dogs | hence property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | |||
| 3 | hunt | present | the braves and the boys not said here | the raccoon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raccoon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | present | braves = brave | raccoon | the Coon Moon xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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