Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 28
Hinun came back from watching the harvest of corn, and told her that the old war chief was dead.
Who acts: Hinun, old war chief · What happens: come back, watch, tell, be · To what, where: harvest, spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hinun, old war chief), 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 | Hinun | Hinun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 watching | mark |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 harvest | det |
| 7 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 corn | case |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harvest | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chief | amod |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chief | compound |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 told | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Hinun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Hinun not said here | the harvest of corn | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Hinun not said here | spirit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the old war chief | dead property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/41/28/