Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 26
It is the moon when the wild geese lay their eggs, and the Indians gather them for food.
Who acts: moon, wild geese, Indians · What happens: be, lay, gather · To what, where: moon, eggs
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, wild geese, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moon | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moon | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 lay | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 geese | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 geese | amod |
| 8 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moon | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gather | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gather | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indians | det |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 gather | nsubj |
| 16 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gather | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gather | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | moon | the moon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the wild geese | geese's eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | gather | present | the Indians | eggs = egg | for food | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for food=Beneficiary |
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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