Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 28
The boy was married to the head chief’s beautiful daughter the next day.
What happens: marry · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | compound |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the boy | day | to the head chief's beautiful daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient |
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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