Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 8
Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water people.
Who acts: Kwasind · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: this, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kwasind), 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 | Kwasind | Kwasind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 foolish | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 foolish | cop |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 foolish | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 foolish | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tell | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 tell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kwasind | enough, foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Kwasind not said here | this | one of the little water people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to one=Recipient |
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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