Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 3
They are divided into many bands, each with a chief for a leader.
What happens: divide · To what, where: people, many bands
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | aux:pass |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bands | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bands | amod |
| 6 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 divided | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 each | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 bands | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 each | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 leader | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 leader | det |
| 14 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | present · passive | people | many bands | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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