Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 27
The next time you watch the dark triangle of wild geese flying northward, you can say it is near the time of the Egg Moon of the Dakotas.
Who acts: you, wild geese, triangle · What happens: watch, fly, say, be · To what, where: dark triangle · 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, wild geese, triangle), 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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 watch | nsubj |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 triangle | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 triangle | amod |
| 8 | triangle | triangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watch | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 geese | case |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 geese | amod |
| 11 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 triangle | nmod |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 geese | acl |
| 13 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 12 flying | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | aux |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | cop |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Moon | det |
| 25 | Egg | Egg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Moon | compound |
| 26 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Dakotas | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dakotas | det |
| 29 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 time | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | you | the dark triangle of wild geese | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | wild geese not said here | northward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | you | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | triangle | near the time | of the Egg Moon; of the Dakotas | 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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