Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 4
Soon after the porcupine was made head chief he called a great council.
Who acts: porcupine · What happens: make, call · To what, where: porcupine, great council · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 porcupine | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 porcupine | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 porcupine | det |
| 4 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | compound |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 council | amod |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the porcupine | head chief obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary chief=Product | ||||
| 2 | call | past | porcupine | a great council | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient |
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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