Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 72
All created things were once believed by some tribes to have their manitous which lived in them.
Who acts: tribes · What happens: believe, have, live · To what, where: created things · 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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det |
| 2 | created | created | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believed | aux:pass |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 believed | advmod |
| 6 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tribes | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 tribes | det |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believed | ccomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 manitous | nmod:poss |
| 13 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 manitous | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past · passive | some tribes | all created things | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | manitous property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | in things = thing; which nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location |
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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