Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, sentence 2
The people of the Six Nations, or Iroquois, point out to their children a cluster of stars which they call the Old Man.
Who acts: people · What happens: point out, call · To what, where: children, cluster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 point | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nations | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Nations | det |
| 5 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Nations | nummod |
| 6 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 point | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 point | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 point | cc |
| 9 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 point | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Iroquois | punct |
| 11 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 point | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 point | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cluster | det |
| 17 | cluster | cluster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 children | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stars | case |
| 19 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cluster | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 call | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 call | nsubj |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cluster | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Man | det |
| 24 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Man | amod |
| 25 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 call | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | infinitive | the people | people's children | of the Six Nations; Iroquois nsubj; out property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | present | people | a cluster of stars | the Old Man obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme man=Result |
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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