Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 32
Remember our maize, or Indian corn, is one great gift from them.
Who acts: you, Indian corn · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: maize, one great gift
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, Indian corn), 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 maize | nmod:poss |
| 3 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 gift | cc |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corn | amod |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gift | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 corn | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gift | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 gift | nummod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gift | amod |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gift | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | our maize | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent maize=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Indian corn | one great gift | from people | 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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