Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 6
Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a certain place in the west for their copper.
Who acts: Indians, Many moons · What happens: live, go · To what, where: certain place
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 (Indians, Many moons), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moons | amod |
| 2 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 moons | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Indians | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Bay | case |
| 8 | Hudson | Hudson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bay | compound |
| 9 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 west | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 west | det |
| 18 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 copper | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 copper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 west | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | the Indians not said here | about Hudson Bay | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bay=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Many moons | a certain place in the west for Indians's copper | the Indians nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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