Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 9

They will tell you that trees are greener on the south side than on the north, and that there are plants whose leaves point due north.

Who acts: boys, trees, plants · What happens: tell, be, point · To what, where: you, south side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, trees, plants), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 greener	mark
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 greener	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 greener	cop
8	greener	green	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tell	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
11	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 side	amod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 greener	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 north	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 north	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 north	det
16	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 greener	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 point	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 point	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 are	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 are	expl
21	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 point	advcl
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 point	nsubj
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 leaves	nmod:poss
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plants	nmod
25	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
26	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 point	xcomp
27	north	north	ADV	_	26 due	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	boys = boy	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present	trees		the south side	than the north; green property	tree rules
3	be	present	plants plants plants's leaves's leaves not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	point	present	plants plants plants's leaves's leaves			due property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 9