Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 25
First son of a Dakota Indian.
To what, where: First son
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 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 son | amod |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Dakota | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Dakota | det |
| 5 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 son | amod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 son | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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