Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 120
Indian tribe always at war with the Sioux; now living in Indian Territory.
Who acts: war · What happens: live · To what, where: Indian Territory, war
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war), 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tribe | amod |
| 2 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 war | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 war | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 war | case |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Sioux | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sioux | det |
| 8 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 war | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 living | advmod |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 war | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Territory | case |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Territory | amod |
| 14 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 war | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | war Indian tribe with the Sioux not said here | Indian Territory | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in territory=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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