Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 4
The Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock 93 V. How Two Squaws saved their Band 96 VI.
Who acts: Face · What happens: save · To what, where: Band
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 (Face), 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 | 2 Face | det |
| 2 | Face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Manitou | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manitou | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Manitou | amod |
| 6 | Manitou | Manitou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Face | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Rock | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rock | det |
| 9 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Face | nmod |
| 10 | 93 | 93 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Rock | flat |
| 11 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rock | appos |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saved | advmod |
| 13 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Squaws | nummod |
| 14 | Squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Band | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Band | Band | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | obj |
| 18 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 VI | compound |
| 19 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 17 Band | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock | Squaws's Band | Two Squaws nsubj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
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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