Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 80
Before he died he told his people his dream, and his tribe gave him a great name, for he had done much good to his people.
Who acts: peace, dream, tribe · What happens: die, tell, people, give, do, dream · To what, where: great name, peace · 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, dream, tribe), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 died | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dream | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 done | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 gave | conj |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 good | advmod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 done | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 good | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | peace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | peace | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | people | peace's dream | peace nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | past | peace's tribe | a great name | peace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | peace | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dream | peace | nom dream «cognition 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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