Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 40
Hī a wäth′ a. A wonderful personage, still much honored by the Iroquois.
What happens: honor · To what, where: wonderful personage
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 | Hī | Hī | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 personage | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ′ | det |
| 3 | wäth | wäth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ′ | amod |
| 4 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hī | appos |
| 5 | a. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ′ | appos |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 personage | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 personage | amod |
| 8 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honored | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 honored | advmod |
| 12 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 personage | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Iroquois | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Iroquois | det |
| 15 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 honored | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 personage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | participle | a wonderful personage Hī not said here | still | by the Iroquois | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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