Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 45
The Indians call Mondahmin their grandfather, and they do all the things he told them.
Who acts: Indians, rain · What happens: call, do, tell · To what, where: grandfather, things · 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 (Indians, rain), 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 | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mondahmin | Mondahmin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 things | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Indians | Indians's grandfather | Mondahmin xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do | present | Indians = indian | all things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | rain | all things not said here | things = thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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