Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 52
The chiefs sent men to Hiawatha on the morning of the fourth day to ask why he made them wait.
Who acts: chiefs, chief, people · What happens: send, ask, make, wait · To what, where: men, Hiawatha, people
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 (chiefs, chief, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Hiawatha | case |
| 6 | Hiawatha | Hiawatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 morning | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ask | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the chiefs | men | Hiawatha | morning | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to hiawatha=Destination | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | chief | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | infinitive | people not said here | 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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