Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, sentence 67
Watch this plant and take the seeds to the tribe that lives nearest you.
Who acts: you, tribe · What happens: watch, take, live · To what, where: plant, seeds, tribe, nearest
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tribe), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 plant | det |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seeds | det |
| 7 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tribe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribe | det |
| 10 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tribe | acl:relcl |
| 13 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 lives | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 nearest | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | this plant | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the seeds | the tribe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to tribe=Destination | |||
| 3 | live | present | the tribe | nearest you | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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