Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 9
His mother’s father was a proud chief, and the grandson seems to have inherited his spirit.
Who acts: father, grandson · What happens: be, seem, inherit · To what, where: proud chief, spirit
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 (father, grandson), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 mother | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seems | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seems | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grandson | det |
| 12 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seems | nsubj |
| 13 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 inherited | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 inherited | aux |
| 16 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 seems | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inherited | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Georgia's mother's father | a proud chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | the grandson | a proud chief not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inherit | to-infinitive · perfect | the grandson not said here | Georgia's spirit | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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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