Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 49
The Iroquois were the friends of the English in 1775.
Who acts: Iroquois · What happens: be · To what, where: friends, 1775
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 (Iroquois), 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 Iroquois | det |
| 2 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 English | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 English | det |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1775 | case |
| 10 | 1775 | 1775 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 friends | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Iroquois | the friends | 1775 | of the English | 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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