Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 97
His wigwam by the lake Tiota was empty, and he was never seen again.
Who acts: wigwam · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: sky
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 (wigwam), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 empty | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wigwam | nmod |
| 6 | Tiota | Tiota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lake | appos |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 empty | cop |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 empty | advcl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sky's wigwam by the lake | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | sky | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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