Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 21
The first one was tall and wore a green blanket.
Who acts: first one · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: green blanket
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tall | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | cop |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wore | cc |
| 7 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blanket | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blanket | amod |
| 10 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wore | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first one | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | the first one not said here | a green blanket | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent blanket=Source |
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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