Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 3
The Siwash Indian of Puget Sound hollows out from a single log a fine canoe with decorated prow.
Who acts: Siwash Indian · What happens: hollow out, decorate · To what, where: fine canoe, single log
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Siwash Indian), 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 | 3 Indian | det |
| 2 | Siwash | Siwash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indian | compound |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hollows | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sound | case |
| 5 | Puget | Puget | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sound | compound |
| 6 | Sound | Sound | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hollows | obl |
| 7 | hollows | hollow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hollows | compound:prt |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 log | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 log | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 log | amod |
| 12 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hollows | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 canoe | det |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 canoe | amod |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hollows | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 prow | case |
| 17 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 prow | amod |
| 18 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 canoe | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hollows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hollow out | present | the Siwash Indian | a fine canoe | a single log | of Puget Sound; with decorated prow | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme of sound=Source | ||
| 2 | decorate | participle | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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