Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 3
One is very good, but the other does only wicked things.
Who acts: One, other · What happens: be, do · To what, where: wicked things
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 (One, other), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 does | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | conj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 things | advmod |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 does | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | the other | wicked things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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