Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 20
The squaws had led their captors by the shortest way, but it was the way of death to each one.
Who acts: shortest way, way · What happens: lead, be · To what, where: squaws, way, one
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 (shortest way, way), 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 squaws | det |
| 2 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 captors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | captors | captor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 way | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 way | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · perfect · passive | the shortest way | the squaws | squaws's captors obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | way | the way | each one | of death | tree rules |
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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