Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 29
The Dakotas were strong tribes and were called The Seven Council Fires.
Who acts: Dakotas · What happens: be, call · To what, where: strong tribes, Council Fires · 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: who acts (Dakotas), 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 | 2 Dakotas | det |
| 2 | Dakotas | dakota | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tribes | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tribes | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tribes | amod |
| 5 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tribes | conj |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fires | det |
| 10 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Council | compound |
| 11 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fires | compound |
| 12 | Fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tribes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Dakotas | strong tribes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | the Dakotas not said here | the Council Fires | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: fire=Recipient |
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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