Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 9
“Ours was the best family in town,” the white rabbit would say very often.
Who acts: Ours, best family · What happens: be, say · To what, where: best family, town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ours, best family), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
| 2 | Ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 family | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 family | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rabbit | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rabbit | amod |
| 13 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 often | advmod |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 say | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Ours | the best family | town | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | would | the best family | the white rabbit nsubj; often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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