Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 22
Ask your chief to let us have the skins for our wigwams.
Who acts: you, chief, us · What happens: ask, let, have · To what, where: chief, us, skins
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chief, us), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 chief | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skins | det |
| 9 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wigwams | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wigwams | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 skins | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | your chief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | your chief not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | us not said here | the skins | for our wigwams | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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