Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 39
Has it ever been your good fortune to see a vast tract of land covered with these gorgeous wild tiger-lilies?
What happens: have, be, see, cover · To what, where: moon, good fortune, vast tract, land
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: 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 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Has | obj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 fortune | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fortune | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fortune | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tract | det |
| 11 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tract | amod |
| 12 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tract | nmod |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 land | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 lilies | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 lilies | nsubj |
| 18 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lilies | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lilies | amod |
| 20 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lilies | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tiger | punct |
| 22 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | moon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | your good fortune | ever | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | a vast tract of land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tract=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | land not said here | with gorgeous wild tiger lilies these | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lily=Theme |
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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