Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 41
In this same moon the wild cherry is ripe, and many tribes know it as the Cherry Moon.
Who acts: wild cherry, many tribes · What happens: be, know · To what, where: same moon, cherry
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 (wild cherry, many 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moon | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moon | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moon | amod |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ripe | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cherry | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cherry | amod |
| 7 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ripe | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ripe | cop |
| 9 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tribes | amod |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ripe | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Moon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Moon | det |
| 18 | Cherry | Cherry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Moon | compound |
| 19 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ripe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wild cherry | this same moon | ripe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | many tribes | cherry | as the Cherry Moon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as moon=Attribute |
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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