Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 174
They have a governor and lieutenant-governor of their own; good laws, good farms, and are a remarkable people.
Who acts: tribes · What happens: have, be · To what, where: governor, remarkable people
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 (tribes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 governor | det |
| 4 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 governor | cc |
| 6 | lieutenant | lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 governor | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lieutenant | punct |
| 8 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 governor | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 own | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 own | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 governor | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 laws | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 laws | amod |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 governor | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 farms | punct |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 farms | amod |
| 17 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laws | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 people | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 people | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 22 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tribes = tribe | a governor and lieutenant governor of tribes's own and good laws and good farms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a remarkable people | tree rules |
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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