Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 29
Eshkossim the melon and Kokees the bean came together and called to White Earth the maiden to welcome them.
Who acts: Eshkossim melon · What happens: come together, call, welcome · To what, where: maiden, White Earth, melon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Eshkossim melon), 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 | Eshkossim | Eshkossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 melon | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 melon | det |
| 3 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Kokees | cc |
| 5 | Kokees | Kokee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 melon | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bean | det |
| 7 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 13 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Earth | amod |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 welcome | mark |
| 18 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 maiden | acl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 welcome | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees | the bean nsubj; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees not said here | the maiden | White Earth | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to earth=Recipient | |||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees not said here | melon | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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