Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 45
White men call this star near Mukwa the Great Bear, the North Star.
Who acts: White men · What happens: call · To what, where: star, Mukwa · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (White men), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 star | det |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 Mukwa | case |
| 7 | Mukwa | Mukwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bear | det |
| 9 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bear | amod |
| 10 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Star | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Star | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Star | compound |
| 14 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bear | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | White men | this star | Mukwa | the Great Bear xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent star=Recipient |
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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