Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 22
The broken canoes, scattered garments, arrows, and bodies told the story of their rescue by the brave squaws.
Who acts: bodies · What happens: break, tell, rescue · To what, where: story, scattered garments · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bodies), 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 canoes | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 canoes | amod |
| 3 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 garments | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 garments | punct |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 6 garments | amod |
| 6 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrows | punct |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 garments | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 garments | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rescue | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 squaws | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 squaws | det |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 squaws | amod |
| 21 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 garments | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | bodies | the story of bodies's rescue | by the brave squaws | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 4 | rescue | bodies = body | nom rescue «act 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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