Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 9
This record, which the notched and painted sticks have kept for several hundreds of years, is an account of the travels of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest across the Wide River.
Who acts: record · What happens: notch, paint, keep, be, travel · To what, where: notched sticks, account, Wide River
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 (record), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 record | det |
| 2 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 account | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kept | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sticks | det |
| 6 | notched | notch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sticks | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 painted | cc |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 notched | conj |
| 9 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | aux |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 record | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hundreds | case |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hundreds | amod |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 record | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 account | cop |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 account | det |
| 20 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 travels | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 travels | det |
| 23 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 account | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Indians | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Indians | det |
| 26 | Leni | Leni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Indians | compound |
| 27 | Lennape | Lennape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Indians | compound |
| 28 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 travels | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Northwest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Northwest | det |
| 31 | Northwest | Northwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Indians | nmod |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 River | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 River | det |
| 34 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 River | amod |
| 35 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 travels | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 account | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notch | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present · perfect · passive | the notched sticks | for several hundreds of years; this record obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this record | a account | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | this record not said here | the Wide River | of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of indian=Trajectory |
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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