Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 3
She knew all the plants that gave medicine; she could tell of things that would happen to her tribe or her family many moons before the things came to pass; but she did not know one thing.
Who acts: woman, plants, things · What happens: know, give, tell, happen, come, pass · To what, where: plants, medicine, many moons, tribe, one thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, plants, things), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plants | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plants | det |
| 5 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plants | acl:relcl |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 happen | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 happen | aux |
| 17 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tribe | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 family | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tribe | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 moons | amod |
| 25 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | obj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 came | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 things | det |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 pass | mark |
| 31 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 came | xcomp |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 know | advmod |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 thing | nummod |
| 39 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 know | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | woman | all plants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | all plants | medicine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could | woman | many moons | woman's tribe or woman's family | of things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent moon=Topic to tribe=Recipient | ||
| 4 | happen | would | things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the things | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pass | to-infinitive | the things not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not know | past · do-support | woman | one thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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/pg73136/56/3/