Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 15
He was a terrible warrior, and his name is both famous and infamous.
Who acts: Philip, name · What happens: be, name · To what, where: terrible warrior
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: who acts (Philip, name), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warrior | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warrior | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warrior | amod |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 famous | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 famous | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 famous | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 famous | cop |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 famous | cc:preconj |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warrior | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 infamous | cc |
| 14 | infamous | infamous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 famous | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Philip | a terrible warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Philip's name | famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Philip's name not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | name | Philip | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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