Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 3
She was married to a young chief of the Chippewas.
What happens: marry · To what, where: girl
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | aux:pass |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chief | amod |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 married | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Chippewas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Chippewas | det |
| 10 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chief | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | girl | to a young chief of the Chippewas | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to chief=Co-Patient |
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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