Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 3
They called it the Great Bear, and pointed it out to the white man in early days.
Who acts: They · What happens: call, point out · To what, where: Iroquois, white man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They), 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 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bear | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Bear | amod |
| 6 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pointed | cc |
| 9 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pointed | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pointed | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pointed | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pointed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | They | Iroquois | the Great Bear xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | point out | past | They not said here | Iroquois | the white man | day | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to man=Recipient |
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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