Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 10
He told his people he was going to find this path and seek this Happy Land.
Who acts: peace · What happens: tell, go, find, seek · To what, where: people, path, Happy Land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 people | nmod:poss |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 path | det |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seek | cc |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 find | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Land | det |
| 15 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Land | amod |
| 16 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | peace | peace's people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | peace | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | peace not said here | this path | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | peace not said here | this Happy Land | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
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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