Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 14
Many fish were in this outlet; every day the fish seemed more plentiful than the day before.
Who acts: Many fish, day · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: outlet
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many fish, day), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 outlet | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 outlet | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 outlet | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 outlet | det |
| 6 | outlet | outlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 outlet | acl:relcl |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 plentiful | advmod |
| 14 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plentiful | obl |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 outlet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many fish | this outlet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | every day the fish | this outlet not said here | before, plentiful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme outlet=Attribute |
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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