Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 6
The tracks of the manitou bird can be seen near the Land of Peace.
What happens: see · To what, where: tracks, Land
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 tracks | det |
| 2 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | compound |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tracks | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 Land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Land | det |
| 12 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Peace | case |
| 14 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Land | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can · passive | the tracks of the manitou bird | the Land of Peace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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