Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 138
The Sioux nation comprised the Dakota and Assiniboin tribes; those Indians living in the middle west of the United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River; and also many tribes in Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, and Mississippi.
Who acts: Sioux nation, Indians · What happens: comprise, live · To what, where: Dakota tribes, middle west
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 (Sioux nation, Indians), 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 nation | det |
| 2 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nation | compound |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comprised | nsubj |
| 4 | comprised | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tribes | det |
| 6 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tribes | compound |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Assiniboin | cc |
| 8 | Assiniboin | Assiniboin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Dakota | conj |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comprised | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Indians | punct |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 Indians | det |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 comprised | obl |
| 13 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Indians | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 west | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 west | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 west | amod |
| 17 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 living | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 States | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 States | det |
| 20 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 States | amod |
| 21 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 west | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mountains | det |
| 24 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | _ | 25 Mountains | compound |
| 25 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 west | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 River | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 River | det |
| 28 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 River | compound |
| 29 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mountains | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 tribes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tribes | cc |
| 32 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 many | advmod |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tribes | amod |
| 34 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comprised | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Virginia | case |
| 36 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 tribes | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Kentucky | punct |
| 38 | Kentucky | Kentucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Virginia | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Carolina | punct |
| 40 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Carolina | compound |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 South | cc |
| 42 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 North | conj |
| 43 | Carolina | Carolina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Virginia | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Mississippi | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Mississippi | cc |
| 46 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Virginia | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | past | the Sioux nation | the Dakota tribes | that Indians obl; many tribes in Virginia and Kentucky and North Carolina and Mississippi obl | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tribe=Pivot | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | that Indians not said here | the middle west of the United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in west=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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