Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 2
The porcupine was chosen head chief of the animals because nothing could hurt him.
Who acts: porcupine, nothing · What happens: choose, be, hurt · To what, where: chosen head chief, porcupine
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porcupine, nothing), 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 porcupine | det |
| 2 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chief | cop |
| 4 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chief | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | compound |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chief | nmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chief | acl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the porcupine | chosen head chief | of the animals | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hurt | could | nothing | porcupine | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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