Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 156
A tribe from North Carolina which joined the Iroquois in 1712.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: join · To what, where: Iroquois, 1712
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 (tribe), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tribe | det |
| 2 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Carolina | case |
| 4 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Carolina | compound |
| 5 | Carolina | Carolina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tribe | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 joined | nsubj |
| 7 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Iroquois | det |
| 9 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1712 | case |
| 11 | 1712 | 1712 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 joined | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | a tribe from North Carolina | the Iroquois | 1712 | which nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iroquois=Patient |
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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