Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 5
They have given these moons names after what interests them most.
Who acts: Tribes, moons names · What happens: give, interest · To what, where: moons names, Tribes
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 (Tribes, moons names), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 names | det |
| 5 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 names | compound |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 interests | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 interests | nsubj |
| 9 | interests | interest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 names | acl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 interests | obj |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 interests | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | Tribes = tribe | this moons names | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | interest | present | this moons names | Tribes = tribe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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