Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 17
These names and hundreds of others are kept in memory as the names of cities, rivers, or lakes.
What happens: keep, name · To what, where: names, memory, cities
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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 names | det |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hundreds | cc |
| 4 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 names | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 others | case |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hundreds | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux:pass |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 memory | case |
| 10 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 names | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 names | det |
| 13 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cities | case |
| 15 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 names | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rivers | punct |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cities | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lakes | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 lakes | cc |
| 20 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cities | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | this names and hundreds of others | memory | as the names of cities and rivers or lakes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in memory=Location | |||
| 2 | name | cities and rivers or lakes | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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