Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 41
There it has been through hundreds of moons.
Who acts: Star · What happens: be · To what, where: hundreds
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 been | expl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 been | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hundreds | case |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 been | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 moons | case |
| 8 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present · perfect | Star | hundreds of moons; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hundred=Location |
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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