Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 46
Some of them settled at Mendota and are much respected by their white friends.
Who acts: Some, white friends · What happens: settle, respect · To what, where: Mendota
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 (Some, white friends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Mendota | case |
| 6 | Mendota | Mendota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 respected | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 respected | aux:pass |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 respected | advmod |
| 10 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 settled | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friends | amod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 respected | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Some of Indians | Mendota | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mendota=Location | ||||
| 2 | respect | present · passive | Indians's white friends | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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