Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 51
We are glad to know that many whites have learned that the red men have a strong love for justice and truth and can show mercy to those who have been merciful.
Who acts: We, many whites, red men · What happens: be, know, learn, have, show · To what, where: strong love, mercy, those · 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 (We, many whites, red men), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 learned | mark |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whites | amod |
| 8 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learned | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learned | aux |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learned | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 love | det |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 justice | case |
| 20 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 love | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 truth | cc |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 justice | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 show | cc |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 show | aux |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | conj |
| 26 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 show | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 those | case |
| 28 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 show | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 merciful | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 merciful | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 merciful | cop |
| 32 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 those | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | learn | present · perfect | many whites | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the red men | a strong love | for justice and truth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 5 | show | can | We not said here | mercy | those | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to that=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is | present · perfect | who nsubj; merciful property | tree rules |
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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