Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 50
Their chiefs and great braves met on the hill by the lake, and their wives waited with them.
Who acts: wives · What happens: meet, wait · To what, where: great braves, hill
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 (wives), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 braves | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 braves | cc |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 braves | amod |
| 5 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 braves | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 waited | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 waited | nsubj |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 braves | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waited | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 braves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | great braves tribes's chiefs not said here | the hill | by the lake | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wait | past | tribes's wives | with tribes = tribe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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