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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

detamodobl:unmarkednsubjacl:relcldetamodobjcaseamodnmodacladvmodpunctnsubjauxnsubjcopcasedetccompcasedetcompoundnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETnextADJtimeNOUNyouPRONwatchVERBtheDETdarkADJtriangleNOUNofADPwildADJgeeseNOUNflyingVERBnorthwardADV,PUNCTyouPRONcanAUXsayVERBitPRONisAUXnearADPtheDETtimeNOUNofADPtheDETEggPROPNMoonPROPNofADPtheDETDakotasNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 timedet
2nextnextADJDegree=Pos3 timeamod
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing17 sayobl:unmarked
4youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs5 watchnsubj
5watchwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 timeacl:relcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 triangledet
7darkdarkADJDegree=Pos8 triangleamod
8triangletriangleNOUNNumber=Sing5 watchobj
9ofofADP_11 geesecase
10wildwildADJDegree=Pos11 geeseamod
11geesegooseNOUNNumber=Plur8 trianglenmod
12flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger11 geeseacl
13northwardnorthwardADV_12 flyingadvmod
14,,PUNCT_3 timepunct
15youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs17 saynsubj
16cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin17 sayaux
17saysayVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
18ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 timensubj
19isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 timecop
20nearnearADP_22 timecase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 timedet
22timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing17 sayccomp
23ofofADP_26 Mooncase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Moondet
25EggEggPROPNNumber=Sing26 Mooncompound
26MoonMoonPROPNNumber=Sing22 timenmod
27ofofADP_29 Dakotascase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Dakotasdet
29DakotasdakotaNOUNNumber=Plur22 timenmod
30..PUNCT_17 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watchpresentyouthe dark triangle of wild geesevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme
2flygerundwild geese not said herenorthward propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertcanyoutimevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4ispresenttrianglenear the timeof the Egg Moon; of the Dakotastree 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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