Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 23
Sequoia, the botanical name of the big trees of California, is the only memorial the white man has given this truly American genius.
Who acts: Sequoia, white man · What happens: be, give, name · To what, where: only memorial, American genius, big trees
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 (Sequoia, white man), 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 | Sequoia | sequoia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 memorial | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | botanical | botanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sequoia | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 name | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 California | case |
| 11 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sequoia | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 memorial | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 memorial | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 memorial | amod |
| 16 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 memorial | acl:relcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 genius | det |
| 23 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 24 American | advmod |
| 24 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 genius | amod |
| 25 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 memorial | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sequoia | the only memorial | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | the white man | this American genius | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | the big trees of California | nom name «communication 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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