Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 63
The children shall find them and know that Segun has sent Peboan away.
Who acts: children, Segun · What happens: find, know, send away · To what, where: flowers, Peboan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. Legend of the Arbutus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Segun), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 9 | Segun | Segun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | Peboan | Peboan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | the children | flowers = flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the children not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | send away | present · perfect | Segun | Peboan | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peboan=Theme |
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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