Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 10
The war club was strong and heavy.
Who acts: war club · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war club), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 club | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 club | compound |
| 3 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heavy | cc |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strong | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the war club | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the war club not said here | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/52/10/