Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 17
This caused great excitement; young men came in scores to learn of him; they forgot hunting and war for letter-writing.
Who acts: This, young men, scores · What happens: cause, come, learn, forget, not hunt · To what, where: great excitement, scores
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 (This, young men, scores), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 excitement | amod |
| 4 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caused | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 scores | case |
| 10 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 learn | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgot | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 18 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 forgot | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 war | cc |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunting | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 writing | case |
| 22 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 writing | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 letter | punct |
| 24 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | This | great excitement | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition excitement=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | young men | scores | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in score=Location | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | young men not said here | of man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | scores = score | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not hunt | gerund | scores = score not said here | for letter writing; war conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for writing=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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