Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 15

At last he called a council; he wrote on bark and gave the writing to his little daughter, who had been taught by him to read.

Who acts: Georgia · What happens: call, write, give, teach, read · To what, where: council, bark, writing, little daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Georgia), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 council	det
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 wrote	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrote	nsubj
9	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 bark	case
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrote	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrote	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 writing	det
15	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 daughter	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 daughter	amod
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taught	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taught	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taught	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 taught	aux:pass
24	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 daughter	acl:relcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taught	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 read	mark
28	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taught	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	Georgia	a council			at last	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent council=Theme at last=Stimulus
2	write	past	Georgia			bark		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bark=Destination
3	give	past	Georgia not said here	the writing	Georgia's little daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent writing=Theme to daughter=Recipient
4	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	Georgia	Georgia's little daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
5	read	to-infinitive	Georgia not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 15