Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 6
When they gathered in the Pipestone Valley the chiefs stood by this rock.
Who acts: hands, chiefs · What happens: gather, stand · To what, where: Pipestone Valley
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, chiefs), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Valley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Valley | det |
| 6 | Pipestone | Pipestone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Valley | compound |
| 7 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | hands = hand | the Pipestone Valley | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the chiefs | by this rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by rock=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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