Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 30
You did not know that the copper-colored people planted anything?
Who acts: You, colored people · What happens: not know, color, plant · To what, where: anything · 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, colored people), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 planted | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 7 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colored | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 copper | punct |
| 9 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 planted | nsubj |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 planted | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | color | participle | copper compound | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plant | participle | the colored people | anything | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
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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