Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 1
Many, many moons ago three Indians sat on the bank of the great river with many islands.
Who acts: Many many moons · What happens: sit · To what, where: bank
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many many moons), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moons | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moons | amod |
| 4 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 three | advmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Indians | nummod |
| 7 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 islands | amod |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Many many moons | the bank of the great river | with many islands; three Indians nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
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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