Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 12
When across the Wide River, they found they had come to the country of the Great Serpent.
Who acts: Wide River, sticks · What happens: find, come · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wide River, sticks), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 River | advmod |
| 2 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 River | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 River | det |
| 4 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 River | amod |
| 5 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 River | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Serpent | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Serpent | det |
| 17 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Serpent | amod |
| 18 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 country | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Wide River | sticks = stick nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | sticks = stick | the country of the Great Serpent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=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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