Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 45
These Indians were called traitors by the Sioux and had to flee for their own lives.
Who acts: Sioux · What happens: call, have, flee · To what, where: Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sioux), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sioux | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sioux | det |
| 8 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 flee | mark |
| 12 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 lives | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lives | amod |
| 16 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flee | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the Sioux | this Indians | traitors xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Sioux not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | to-infinitive | the Sioux not said here | for Indians's own lives | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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