Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 33
The two Indians in the boat called to the two on the shore.
What happens: call · To what, where: boat, two, two Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Indians | nummod |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boat | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 two | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 called | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 two | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indians | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the boat not said here | the two on the shore | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to two=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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