Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 2
They made a long halt at the Sault Ste.
Who acts: bands · What happens: make · To what, where: long halt, Sault Ste
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bands), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 halt | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halt | amod |
| 5 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Ste | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ste | det |
| 8 | Sault | Sault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ste | compound |
| 9 | Ste | Ste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | bands = band | a long halt | the Sault Ste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset halt=Product |
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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