Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 7
The month in our calendar is also given, so that you can easily guess the Indian’s reason for his name for the month.
Who acts: you, nation · What happens: give, guess, name · To what, where: month, Indian reason
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 (you, nation), 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 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 calendar | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 calendar | nmod:poss |
| 5 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 month | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 given | advmod |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guess | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 guess | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 guess | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 guess | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 guess | aux |
| 14 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 15 guess | advmod |
| 15 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reason | det |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reason | amod |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Indian | case |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guess | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reason | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 month | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the month in our calendar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | guess | can | you | the Indian reason | for nation's name for the month; easily property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||
| 3 | name | nation | for the month | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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