Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 3
Pleasant, of the band that has the Bear totem, tells this story:
Who acts: band · What happens: have, tell · To what, where: Bear totem, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (band), 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 | Pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tells | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 band | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 band | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pleasant | conj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 band | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 totem | det |
| 9 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 totem | compound |
| 10 | totem | totem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the band | the Bear totem | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent totem=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | this story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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