Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 38
He took his great peace pipe and offered smoke to the new star.
Who acts: Keneu · What happens: take, offer · To what, where: great peace pipe, smoke, new star
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 (Keneu), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pipe | amod |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pipe | compound |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 offered | cc |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 star | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 star | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 star | amod |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Keneu | Keneu's great peace pipe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Keneu not said here | smoke | to the new star goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme to star=Goal |
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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