Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 46
Wild grasses and grains are ready for the gatherers, and the maize will shortly be ready for the harvest.
Who acts: Wild grasses, maize · What happens: be
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 grasses, maize), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grasses | amod |
| 2 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grains | cc |
| 4 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grasses | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gatherers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gatherers | det |
| 9 | gatherers | gatherer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ready | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ready | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maize | det |
| 13 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | aux |
| 15 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 17 ready | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ready | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 harvest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 harvest | det |
| 20 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wild grasses and grains | for the gatherers; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | the maize | for the harvest; ready, shortly property | 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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