Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 3
The old chief wanted to marry the young daughter of Red Eagle.
Who acts: old chief · What happens: want, marry · To what, where: young daughter
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 (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Eagle | case |
| 11 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Eagle | flat |
| 12 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the old chief | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old chief not said here | the young daughter of Red Eagle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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