Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 44
A monument erected in 1900 to these good Indians shows the friendly feeling of the whites to their rescuers.
Who acts: monument · What happens: erect, show · To what, where: monument, 1900, friendly feeling
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 (monument), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 monument | det |
| 2 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 monument | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1900 | case |
| 5 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 erected | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Indians | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Indians | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Indians | amod |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 erected | obl:agent |
| 10 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feeling | det |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | amod |
| 13 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 whites | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whites | det |
| 16 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feeling | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rescuers | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rescuers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rescuers | rescuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 whites | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | participle | a monument not said here | 1900 | this good Indians obl:agent | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | show | present | a monument | the friendly feeling of the whites to Indians's rescuers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient |
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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