Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 58
The Indians have twelve moons in their year, the same number that we have in our calendar.
Who acts: Indians, we · What happens: have · To what, where: twelve moons, same number, calendar
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 (Indians, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 moons | nummod |
| 5 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 year | nmod:poss |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moons | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moons | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 have | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 number | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 calendar | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 calendar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Indians | twelve moons | in Indians's year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | the same number | our calendar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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