Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 1
The Delaware Indians of eastern Pennsylvania have always called the Iroquois the Mingo Indians.
What happens: call · To what, where: Delaware Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | Delaware | Delaware | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | compound |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pennsylvania | case |
| 5 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Pennsylvania | amod |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Iroquois | det |
| 11 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indians | det |
| 13 | Mingo | Mingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Indians | compound |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Iroquois | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · perfect · passive | the Delaware Indians of eastern Pennsylvania | the Iroquois xcomp; always property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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