Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 5
Their chiefs were noted for their wisdom in war and peace.
What happens: note · To what, where: chiefs, 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: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noted | aux:pass |
| 4 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wisdom | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noted | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 war | case |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 peace | cc |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 war | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past · passive | sticks's chiefs | war and peace | for sticks's wisdom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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