Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 29
Where the first Indians came from the most learned white man cannot tell.
Who acts: first Indians · What happens: come, learn, not tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first Indians), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Indians | amod |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 learned | advmod |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | amod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obl |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the first Indians | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | can | the first Indians not said here | from the learned white man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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