Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 23
Now the squaws of their band sing in the great war dance and chant of the bravery of women.
Who acts: squaws · What happens: sing, chant · To what, where: great war dance, bravery
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 squaws | det |
| 3 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 band | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 band | nmod:poss |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squaws | nmod |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dance | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dance | amod |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dance | compound |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chant | cc |
| 14 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dance | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bravery | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bravery | det |
| 17 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chant | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bravery | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the squaws of squaws's band | the great war dance and chant of the bravery of women | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dance=Location | |||
| 2 | chant | the bravery of women | nom chant «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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