Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 16
She read it and did as the writing commanded; the test was tried many times.
Who acts: writing · What happens: read, do, command, try · To what, where: council, writing, test · 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 (writing), 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 | 2 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 read | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 did | cc |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 writing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 writing | det |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 writing | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 test | det |
| 12 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tried | aux:pass |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 read | advcl |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | writing | council | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | past | writing not said here | as the writing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | command | participle | the writing not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | try | past · passive | the test | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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