Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 27
It is said each nation had its own shape of arrowhead.
Who acts: nation · What happens: say, have · To what, where: jasper, own shape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 nation | det |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shape | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shape | amod |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 arrowhead | case |
| 11 | arrowhead | arrowhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shape | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | jasper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | each nation | jasper's own shape of arrowhead | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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