Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 20
The type was cast in Cherokee characters, the same that Se-quoyah had invented.
What happens: cast, invent · To what, where: type, Cherokee characters, Se quoyah
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 type | det |
| 2 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | aux:pass |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 characters | case |
| 6 | Cherokee | Cherokee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 characters | compound |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 characters | amod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 invented | mark |
| 12 | Se | Se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 quoyah | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Se | punct |
| 14 | quoyah | quoyah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 invented | aux |
| 16 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 same | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past · passive | the type | Cherokee characters | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in character=Destination | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · perfect · passive | Se quoyah | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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