Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 35
Other nations and tribes know this star now, but the Ojibways believe that their people were the first to know where to find it in the Great Blue Wigwam, and that the Little People were told of its worth when their home was on the Evening Star.
Who acts: Other nations, Ojibways, people, home · What happens: know, believe, be, find, tell · To what, where: star, Great Blue Wigwam, Little People, Evening Star · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Other nations, Ojibways, people, home), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nations | amod |
| 2 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tribes | cc |
| 4 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nations | conj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 star | det |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 believe | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ojibways | det |
| 12 | Ojibways | ojibway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 first | mark |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 first | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 first | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 first | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 first | acl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 find | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Wigwam | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Wigwam | det |
| 28 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Wigwam | amod |
| 29 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Wigwam | amod |
| 30 | Wigwam | Wigwam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 told | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 told | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 told | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 People | det |
| 35 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 People | amod |
| 36 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 told | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 told | aux:pass |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 believe | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 worth | mark |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 worth | nmod:poss |
| 41 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 told | xcomp |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 Star | advmod |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 home | nmod:poss |
| 44 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Star | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 Star | cop |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 Star | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Star | det |
| 48 | Evening | Evening | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Star | compound |
| 49 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 worth | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Other nations and tribes | this star | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | believe | present | the Ojibways | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | nations's people | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | star | the Great Blue Wigwam | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the Little People | worth property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | People's home | the Evening Star | tree rules |
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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