Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 11

The white-haired chief told the canoe to stop by the little hill on the shore where sat the three Indians; it came there and stopped.

Who acts: white haired chief, canoe · What happens: tell, stop, sit, come · To what, where: canoe, three Indians · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (white haired chief, canoe), 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	5 chief	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chief	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 white	punct
4	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chief	amod
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canoe	det
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hill	amod
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hill	nmod
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 sat	advmod
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shore	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Indians	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Indians	nummod
22	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 sat	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 came	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stopped	cc
28	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the white haired chief		the canoe			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent canoe=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the white haired chief not said here				by the little hill on the shore	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	sit	past		the three Indians				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location indian=Theme
4	come	past	canoe			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	past	canoe not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 11