Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 2
There is a noble priest who has long been a missionary among the Portage Indians, near the Lake of the Woods.
Who acts: noble priest · What happens: be, have · To what, where: missionary
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: who acts (noble priest), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 priest | amod |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 priest | acl:relcl |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 missionary | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 missionary | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 missionary | det |
| 11 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indians | det |
| 14 | Portage | Portage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Indians | compound |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 missionary | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lake | punct |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 Lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lake | det |
| 19 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Indians | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Woods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Woods | det |
| 22 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Lake | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a noble priest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a noble priest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | a missionary | among the Portage Indians and the Lake of the Woods; long property | 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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