Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 12
The braves of her tribe had a great battle with the Ojibways.
Who acts: braves · What happens: have · To what, where: great battle
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (braves), 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 braves | det |
| 2 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tribe | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 braves | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 battle | amod |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Ojibways | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ojibways | det |
| 12 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 battle | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the braves of fishing's tribe | a great battle | with the Ojibways | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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