Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 36
The North Wind’s Defeat 189 XXXVIII.
Who acts: North Wind · What happens: defeat · To what, where: Defeat
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Defeat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Wind | case |
| 5 | Defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | 189 | 189 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Defeat | flat |
| 7 | XXXVIII | XXXVIII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Defeat | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Defeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | defeat | the North Wind | nom defeat «event 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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