Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 3
Marie, for many fish were in these waters, but there was no place to plant their corn.
Who acts: many fish, Marie · What happens: be, plant · To what, where: place, corn
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 (many fish, Marie), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waters | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 waters | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waters | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 waters | det |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Marie | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 plant | mark |
| 17 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | acl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 corn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plant | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many fish | for this waters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Marie and this waters | no place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plant | to-infinitive | fish's corn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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