Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 10
He was allowed to hear the ancient legends, and published them in prose form in 1830.
Who acts: Henry · What happens: allow, hear, publish · To what, where: Henry, ancient legends, legends, prose form
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry), 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 | 3 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legends | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legends | amod |
| 8 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 published | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 published | cc |
| 11 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 published | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 form | case |
| 14 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 form | compound |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 published | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1830 | case |
| 17 | 1830 | 1830 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 published | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | Henry | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Henry not said here | the ancient legends | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | publish | past | legends = legend | prose form | in 1830 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
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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