Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 7
Wiwâstè [5] is chief of a nimble band.
What happens: be · To what, where: Wiwâstè chief
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. 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 | Wiwâstè | Wiwâstè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | compound |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 5 | punct |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Wiwâstè | appos |
| 4 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 5 | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chief | cop |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 band | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 band | det |
| 9 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 band | amod |
| 10 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Wiwâstè chief | of a nimble band | 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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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