Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 23
They know the effect of the bright sunshine of March when it shines upon the snowdrifts.
Who acts: Sioux, effect · What happens: know, shine, effect · To what, where: effect, snowdrifts, bright sunshine
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sioux, effect), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 effect | det |
| 4 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sunshine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sunshine | det |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sunshine | amod |
| 8 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 effect | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 March | case |
| 10 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sunshine | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 shines | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shines | nsubj |
| 13 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 snowdrifts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snowdrifts | det |
| 16 | snowdrifts | snowdrift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shines | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Sioux | the effect of the bright sunshine of March | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer effect=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | effect | the snowdrifts | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon snowdrift=Location | ||||
| 3 | effect | the bright sunshine of March | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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