Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 12
The mother sent her young porcupines to call these animals to the council.
Who acts: mother · What happens: send, call · To what, where: young porcupines, animals, council · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 porcupines | nmod:poss |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 porcupines | amod |
| 6 | porcupines | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 call | mark |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the mother | mother's young porcupines | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcupine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | this animals | the council | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Topic to council=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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