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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 28

They found the trail they had made and followed it back to their own land; there they told their chiefs of the wise one in the white canoe.

Who acts: hearts · What happens: find, make, follow back, tell · To what, where: trail, own land, chiefs, white canoe · 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 (hearts), 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

nsubjdetobjnsubjauxacl:relclccconjobjadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctexplnsubjconjnmod:possiobjcasedetamodnmodcasedetamodoblpunctrootTheyPRONfoundVERBtheDETtrailNOUNtheyPRONhadAUXmadeVERBandCCONJfollowedVERBitPRONbackADVtoADPtheirPRONownADJlandNOUN;PUNCTtherePRONtheyPRONtoldVERBtheirPRONchiefsNOUNofADPtheDETwiseADJoneNOUNinADPtheDETwhiteADJcanoeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foundnsubj
2foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 traildet
4trailtrailNOUNNumber=Sing2 foundobj
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs7 madensubj
6hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 madeaux
7mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 trailacl:relcl
8andandCCONJ_9 followedcc
9followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundconj
10ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 followedobj
11backbackADV_9 followedadvmod
12totoADP_15 landcase
13theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 landnmod:poss
14ownownADJDegree=Pos15 landamod
15landlandNOUNNumber=Sing9 followedobl
16;;PUNCT_19 toldpunct
17theretherePRONPronType=Dem19 toldexpl
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 toldnsubj
19toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foundconj
20theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 chiefsnmod:poss
21chiefschiefNOUNNumber=Plur19 toldiobj
22ofofADP_25 onecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 onedet
24wisewiseADJDegree=Pos25 oneamod
25oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing21 chiefsnmod
26ininADP_29 canoecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 canoedet
28whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos29 canoeamod
29canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing19 toldobl
30..PUNCT_2 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpasthearts = heartthe trailvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic
2makepast · perfecthearts = heartthe trail not said herevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trail=Product
3follow backpasthearts = heart not said heretrailhearts's own landvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to land=Trajectory
4tell speech: assertpasthearts = hearthearts's chiefs of the wise onethe white canoe; therevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient

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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