Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 15
Her husband sang a long song and made a great speech.
Who acts: husband · What happens: sing, make · To what, where: long song, great speech
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 (husband), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 song | amod |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 speech | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speech | amod |
| 11 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | warrior's husband | a long song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | warrior's husband not said here | a great speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product |
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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