Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 34
They talked in the council and showed their people the star that never moves.
Who acts: hunters, star · What happens: talk, show, not move · To what, where: council, star, people
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, star), 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 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 council | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showed | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 moves | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 moves | advmod |
| 14 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 star | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | hunters = hunter | the council | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | hunters = hunter not said here | the star | hunters's people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient star=Topic | |||
| 3 | not move | present | the star | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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