Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 85

Hiawatha sat down in the council, and the third day the chiefs talked with one another; then they all said: “We will do this thing.

Who acts: Hiawatha, chiefs, Cayugas, We · What happens: sit down, talk, say, do · To what, where: council, one, thing · 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: who acts (Hiawatha, chiefs, Cayugas, We), 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	Hiawatha	hiawatha	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 council	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 council	det
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 talked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talked	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chiefs	det
13	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 talked	nsubj
14	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 talked	obj
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	fixed
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 said	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 they	det
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
25	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	Hiawatha		the council		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location
2	talk	past	the chiefs	one		day	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Cayugas = cayuga			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	future	We	this thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 85