Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 1
Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition 217 I. Menabozho and his Three Brothers 223 II.
Who acts: Introductory Indians · What happens: condition · To what, where: Present Condition
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Introductory Indians), 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 | Introductory | Introductory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Indians | compound |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Introductory | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Condition | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 Indians | case |
| 6 | Present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Condition | amod |
| 7 | Condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | 217 | 217 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Condition | flat |
| 9 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Condition | appos |
| 10 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 I. | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Brothers | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brothers | compound |
| 14 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 I. | conj |
| 15 | 223 | 223 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 I. | list |
| 16 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 223 | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | condition | the Introductory Indians | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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