Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 34
This is the story the tribes tell of how wampum came to be used for war and for peace.
Who acts: This, tribes, wampum · What happens: be, tell, come, use · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (This, tribes, wampum), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tribes | det |
| 6 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tell | obl |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 used | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 peace | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 peace | case |
| 19 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 war | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the tribes | the story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | past | wampum | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive · passive | wampum not said here | for war and peace | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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