Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 10
It was left for the copper mountain itself to decide who should be its master.
What happens: leave, decide, be · To what, where: copper, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | compound |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 mountain | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 decide | mark |
| 10 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 master | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 master | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 master | cop |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decide | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | copper | for the copper mountain copper | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for mountain=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | should | copper's master | who nsubj; copper nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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