Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 3
Tribes living in different parts of America have various names for the months, which they call Moons.
Who acts: Tribes · What happens: live, have, call · To what, where: different parts, various names · 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 (Tribes), 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 | Tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 2 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Tribes | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 parts | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parts | amod |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 living | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parts | nmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 names | amod |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 months | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 months | det |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 names | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 call | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | nsubj |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 names | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | Tribes not said here | different parts of America | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Tribes | various names | for the months | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | present | Tribes = tribe | various names | Moons obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme moon=Result |
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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