Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 13
How the Copper Mountain came to fall 266 XV.
Who acts: Copper Mountain · What happens: come, fall · To what, where: 266 XV
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 (Copper Mountain), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mountain | det |
| 3 | Copper | Copper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mountain | compound |
| 4 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fall | mark |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | 266 | 266 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 XV | nummod |
| 9 | XV | xv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Copper Mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | the Copper Mountain not said here | 266 XV | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient xv=Result |
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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