Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 3
This was when animals had tribes and chiefs like the Indians.
Who acts: This, animals · What happens: be, have · To what, where: tribes
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 (This, animals), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 when | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 when | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 when | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chiefs | cc |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tribes | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 Indians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indians | det |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 chiefs | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | animals | tribes and chiefs like the Indians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=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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