Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 98
The United States government has recently decided to use the form Moki instead of Moqui.
Who acts: States government · What happens: decide, use · To what, where: form
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 (States government), 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 | 4 government | det |
| 2 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 States | amod |
| 3 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 government | compound |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | aux |
| 6 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 7 decided | advmod |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obj |
| 12 | Moki | Moki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 form | appos |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 Moqui | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | Moqui | Moqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present · perfect | the States government | recently property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | the States government not said here | the form | instead Moqui | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
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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