Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 9
The question would be answered when the forehead strap was finished.
What happens: answer, finish · To what, where: question, forehead strap · 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: 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 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | aux:pass |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 finished | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strap | det |
| 8 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strap | compound |
| 9 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | aux:pass |
| 11 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | would · passive | the question | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | the forehead strap | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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