Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 4
The fathers of these Indians had been told of this river in the north which was filled with islands.
What happens: tell, fill · To what, where: fathers, north · 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: 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 | 2 fathers | det |
| 2 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Indians | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 fathers | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 north | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 north | det |
| 14 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 north | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the fathers of this Indians | the north | of this river | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the north | with islands | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with island=Instrument |
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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