Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 62
Your bowls of clay shall be of copper.
What happens: be · To what, where: bowls
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 clay | case |
| 4 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowls | nmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 copper | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 copper | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 copper | case |
| 8 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowls | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | of copper | tree rules |
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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