Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 7
Their moccasins were torn, and their feet were very tired; but the river was very beautiful, and it made their eyes glad to see it.
Who acts: feet, river, eyes · What happens: tear, be, make, see · To what, where: moccasins, eyes, river
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 (feet, river, eyes), 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 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 2 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | aux:pass |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tired | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tired | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tired | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tired | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 tired | advmod |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 torn | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beautiful | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beautiful | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 torn | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 made | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 glad | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | Indians's moccasins | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Indians's feet | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the river | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | river | Indians's eyes | glad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material eye=Product | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Indians's eyes not said here | river | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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