Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 8
One day a famous old war chief came to her father’s teepee with gifts.
Who acts: famous old war chief · What happens: come · To what, where: teepee
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 (famous old war chief), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chief | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chief | amod |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | compound |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 teepee | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gifts | case |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 teepee | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a famous old war chief | chief's father's teepee with gifts | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Initial_Location |
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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