Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 18
They had thought their people very strong; now they seemed like wild rabbits for weakness.
Who acts: people · What happens: think, seem · To what, where: people · 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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 people | nmod:poss |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | obl:agent |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 seemed | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 rabbits | case |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rabbits | amod |
| 14 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seemed | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 weakness | case |
| 16 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | people's people | people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | people | now | like wild rabbits; for weakness | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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