Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 28
It will grow taller than any tree that you or your tribe have seen.
Who acts: tree · What happens: grow, see · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taller | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seen | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 tribe | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 you | conj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | tree | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect · passive | you | any tree obj | 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.
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