Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 10
“The Sun-father gave his two children eternal youth.
Who acts: Sun father · What happens: give · To what, where: eternal youth, two children
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 father | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sun | punct |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 children | nummod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | the Sun father | eternal youth | father's two children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient youth=Theme |
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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