Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 40

Usama the tobacco had come with all of his tribe to give gifts to the great chief Mondahmin the corn plant.

Who acts: Usama · What happens: come, give · To what, where: gifts

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 (Usama), 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	Usama	Usama	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tobacco	det
3	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 come	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tribe	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tribe	nmod:poss
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
13	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 chief	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chief	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chief	amod
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
18	Mondahmin	Mondahmin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chief	appos
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plant	det
20	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plant	compound
21	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Usama					with all of tobacco's tribe; the tobacco nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	to-infinitive	Usama not said here	gifts				to the great chief; the corn plant obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient plant=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 40