Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 22
They knew the value of these mines, but the white man’s power was stronger than theirs, and they had to leave homes and wealth for a strange new land.
Who acts: quoyah, power · What happens: know, be, have, leave, value · To what, where: value, homes, mines
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 (quoyah, power), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 value | det |
| 4 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mines | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 mines | det |
| 7 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 value | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stronger | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stronger | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | cop |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 theirs | case |
| 18 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stronger | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wealth | cc |
| 27 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 homes | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | quoyah | the value of this mines | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the white man's power | than quoyah; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | quoyah | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | quoyah not said here | homes and wealth | for a strange new land | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent home=Theme for land=Recipient | |||
| 5 | value | this mines | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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