Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 19
“Here is a feather from a scalp lock,” says another, as she holds up a fiber from some feather.
Who acts: feather, sister · What happens: be, say, hold up · To what, where: another, fiber, feather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feather, sister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 says | ccomp |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lock | det |
| 8 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lock | compound |
| 9 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feather | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 holds | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 holds | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 holds | nsubj |
| 17 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 holds | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fiber | det |
| 20 | fiber | fiber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holds | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 feather | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 feather | det |
| 23 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holds | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a feather from a scalp lock | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold up | present | sister | a fiber | some feather | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fiber=Theme |
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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