Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 2
This has become the name of the people, and Dakota is the language which they speak.
Who acts: This, Dakota, people · What happens: become, be, speak, name · To what, where: name, language, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, Dakota, people), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 language | cc |
| 11 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 language | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 language | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 language | det |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | parataxis |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 speak | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 language | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | This | the name of the people | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Dakota | the language | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | people | the language | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | the people | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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