Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 10
It is a fine sight to see the teepees of the bands when they have gathered at the agency.
Who acts: meat · What happens: be, see, gather · To what, where: fine sight, teepees, agency
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat), 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 | 5 sight | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sight | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sight | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teepees | det |
| 9 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bands | det |
| 12 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teepees | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 gathered | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gathered | aux |
| 16 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bands | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 agency | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 agency | det |
| 19 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gathered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | meat | a fine sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the teepees of the bands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teepee=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gather | present · perfect · passive | teepees = teepee | the agency | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at agency=Asset |
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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