Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 20
The Iroquois had conquered these Indians, and had refused to let them go to war as a punishment for their great bravery.
Who acts: Iroquois, Indians · What happens: conquer, refuse, not let, go · To what, where: Indians, war
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 (Iroquois, Indians), 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 Iroquois | det |
| 2 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conquered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conquered | aux |
| 4 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 Indians | det |
| 6 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 conquered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refused | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 refused | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 refused | aux |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 conquered | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 refused | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 punishment | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 punishment | det |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 bravery | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bravery | amod |
| 23 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past · perfect | the Iroquois | this Indians | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past · perfect | the Iroquois not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not let | to-infinitive | the Iroquois not said here | Indians = indian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | war | as a punishment; for war's great bravery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=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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