Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 2
He went from one nation to another to teach them the things they needed to know.
Who acts: Hiawatha, Mohawks, things · What happens: go, teach, need, know · To what, where: one nation, things, Mohawks
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiawatha, Mohawks, things), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 nation | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nation | nummod |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 another | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 teach | mark |
| 9 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teach | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 needed | nsubj |
| 14 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 needed | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hiawatha | one nation | to another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from nation=Initial_Location to another=Destination | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | Hiawatha not said here | the things | Mohawks = mohawk | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | need | past | Mohawks = mohawk | the things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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