Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 10
It was given to this society by a great-grandson of William Penn.
Who acts: great grandson · What happens: give · To what, where: Society
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great grandson), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 society | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 society | det |
| 6 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 grandson | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 grandson | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandson | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 great | punct |
| 11 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 William | case |
| 13 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grandson | nmod |
| 14 | Penn | Penn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 William | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | a great grandson of William | Society | this society | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to society=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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