Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 137
The French name for the people called by the Algonquins nadiwe-ssiwag, or the treacherous ones, from their manner of warfare.
What happens: call · To what, where: people, French name · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 people | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 ssiwag | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ssiwag | det |
| 10 | Algonquins | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 ssiwag | compound |
| 11 | nadiwe | nadiwe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ssiwag | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 nadiwe | punct |
| 13 | ssiwag | ssiwag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ones | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 ones | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ones | det |
| 17 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 name | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 manner | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 manner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 warfare | case |
| 24 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 manner | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the people not said here | by the Algonquins nadiwe ssiwag | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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