Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 48
Hinun does not live behind the falling waters in these days, for when the Indians left he went away.
Who acts: Hinun, Indians · What happens: not live, fall, leave, go away · To what, where: falling waters
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, Indians), 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 | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 waters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waters | det |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 waters | amod |
| 8 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waters | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 left | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Indians | det |
| 16 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | present · do-support | Hinun | the falling waters in this days | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind water=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | the Indians | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go away | past | Hinun | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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