Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 4
It is not an easy matter to get them to tell their legends about trees, rocks, or living creatures.
Who acts: It, Indians · What happens: not be, get, tell, live · To what, where: easy matter, Indians, legends, creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, Indians), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matter | amod |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 matter | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | xcomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legends | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rocks | punct |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legends | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 living | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 living | cc |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tell | advcl |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 living | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | It | a easy matter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Indians = indian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | Indians's legends and rocks | about trees | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient about tree=Topic | |||
| 4 | live | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | creatures | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme creature=Location |
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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