Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 81
“The Senecas who live in the forest, and whose trails are found all over the land, shall be the fourth nation, for they have much wisdom in hunting.
Who acts: Senecas · What happens: live, find, be, have · To what, where: forest, trails, land, fourth nation, much wisdom, hunting
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 (Senecas), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 nation | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Senecas | det |
| 3 | Senecas | seneca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nation | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Senecas | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 trails | nmod:poss |
| 12 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Senecas | acl |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 land | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Senecas | punct |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 nation | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 nation | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nation | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 nation | amod |
| 24 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 nation | conj |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wisdom | amod |
| 30 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hunting | case |
| 32 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 nation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | the Senecas | the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · passive | trails | the land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | the Senecas | the fourth nation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Senecas = seneca | much wisdom | hunting | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient |
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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