Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 10
Her father took his gifts, and she was to be the old war chief’s bride.
Who acts: father, Leelinaw, Ojibway · What happens: take, be, gift · To what, where: gifts, bride
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Leelinaw, Ojibway), 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 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bride | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bride | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bride | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bride | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bride | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bride | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chief | amod |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | compound |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Leelinaw's father | Ojibway's gifts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Leelinaw | the old war chief's bride | the old war chief nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gift | Ojibway | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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