Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 41
The people went out in their canoes and chanted songs to the new flower.
Who acts: people · What happens: go out, chant · To what, where: canoes, songs, new flower
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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 canoes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chanted | cc |
| 9 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chanted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flower | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chanted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the people | people's canoes | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chant | past | the people not said here | songs | the new flower | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to flower=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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