Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 23
The young brave woke and told the council.
Who acts: young brave · What happens: wake, tell · To what, where: council · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young brave), 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 brave | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | amod |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 council | det |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the young brave | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the young brave not said here | the council | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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