Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 29
This book is a description of his travels at that time in the valley of the Mississippi to the Falls of St. Anthony and beyond.
Who acts: book · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: description, valley
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 description | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 description | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 description | det |
| 5 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 travels | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 travels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 description | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travels | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 valley | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valley | det |
| 14 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travels | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mississippi | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mississippi | det |
| 17 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 valley | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Falls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Falls | det |
| 20 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 travels | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Anthony | case |
| 22 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Anthony | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Falls | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beyond | cc |
| 25 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 23 Anthony | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 description | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this book | a description | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | this book not said here | the valley of the Mississippi | time | to the Falls of Anthony St.; Father nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory |
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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