Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 2
Each painted notch indicated some great event in their nation’s history.
Who acts: painted notch · What happens: paint, indicate · To what, where: great event, history
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 (painted notch), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 notch | det |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 notch | amod |
| 3 | notch | notch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indicated | nsubj |
| 4 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 event | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 event | amod |
| 7 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indicated | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 history | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 history | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 nation | case |
| 12 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indicated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 indicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | indicate | past | each painted notch | some great event | sticks's nation's history | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot event=Topic |
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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