Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 6
He invented a perfect alphabet of over eighty letters for his native Cherokee language, and by his own zeal inspired his nation with a love for written words.
Who acts: Georgia · What happens: invent, inspire, write · To what, where: perfect alphabet, nation
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 (Georgia), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invented | nsubj |
| 2 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 alphabet | det |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 alphabet | amod |
| 5 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invented | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 letters | case |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 eighty | advmod |
| 8 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 letters | nummod |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 alphabet | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 language | nmod:poss |
| 12 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 language | amod |
| 13 | Cherokee | Cherokee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 language | compound |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invented | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inspired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 inspired | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 zeal | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 zeal | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 zeal | amod |
| 20 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inspired | obl |
| 21 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 invented | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nation | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inspired | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 love | det |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inspired | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 words | case |
| 28 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 words | amod |
| 29 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 inspired | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past | Georgia | a perfect alphabet of eighty letters | for Georgia's native Cherokee language | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent alphabet=Result for language=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | inspire | past | Georgia not said here | Georgia's nation | by Georgia's own zeal; with a love; for written words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nation=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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