Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 51
With plenty of maize and wild rice the winter is not dreaded.
What happens: not dread · To what, where: winter
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 plenty | case |
| 2 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dreaded | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 maize | case |
| 4 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plenty | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rice | cc |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rice | amod |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plenty | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 winter | det |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dreaded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dreaded | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dreaded | advmod |
| 12 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dreaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dread | present · passive | the winter | with plenty of maize and wild rice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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