Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 35
White Cloud begged of the tribe to move to a better place for their village.
Who acts: White Cloud · What happens: beg, move · To what, where: better place
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 (White Cloud), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Cloud | amod |
| 2 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tribe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tribe | det |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 move | mark |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 village | nmod:poss |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | White Cloud | of the tribe | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | White Cloud not said here | a better place for medicines's village | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |
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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