Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 16
The warriors saw the canoe which held the two captive squaws stand still.
Who acts: warriors, canoe, two captive squaws · What happens: see, hold, stand · To what, where: canoe
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors, canoe, two captive squaws), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 canoe | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 squaws | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 squaws | nummod |
| 10 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 squaws | amod |
| 11 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | ccomp |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 stand | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the warriors | the canoe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the canoe | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | present | the two captive squaws | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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