Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 98
The Five Nations say that he went to the Islands of the Happy Ones.
Who acts: Five Nations, nation · What happens: say, go · To what, where: Islands · 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 (Five Nations, nation), 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 | 3 Nations | det |
| 2 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Nations | nummod |
| 3 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Islands | det |
| 10 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ones | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ones | det |
| 13 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ones | amod |
| 14 | Ones | One | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Islands | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Five Nations | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past | nation | the Islands of the Happy Ones | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location |
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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