Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 11
Even here they show their respect to the head chief and his followers, for his teepees are placed in the center of the camp.
Who acts: teepees · What happens: show, place, respect · To what, where: respect, head chief, teepees, center
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 (teepees), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 here | advmod |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 show | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 respect | nmod:poss |
| 6 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | compound |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followers | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 followers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chief | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 placed | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teepees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux:pass |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 show | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 center | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 center | det |
| 22 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 camp | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 camp | det |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 center | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | teepees = teepee | teepees's respect | the head chief and chief's followers | here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Topic to chief=Recipient | ||
| 2 | place | present · passive | chief's teepees | the center of the camp | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in center=Destination | ||||
| 3 | respect | teepees = teepee | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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