Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 4
The Good Spirit made the world and filled it full of men and women.
Who acts: Good Spirit · What happens: make, fill · To what, where: world
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 (Good Spirit), 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 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Spirit | amod |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 filled | cc |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 filled | obj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 filled | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 women | cc |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 men | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Good Spirit | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Product | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the Good Spirit not said here | world | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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