Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 10
The teepee is shut, for it is winter, and you cannot hear the papoose laugh.
Who acts: teepee, you, papoose · What happens: be, not hear, laugh
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teepee, you, papoose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teepee | det |
| 2 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | cop |
| 4 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 winter | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 winter | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 winter | cop |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hear | advmod |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shut | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 papoose | det |
| 17 | papoose | papoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hear | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the teepee | shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | teepee | for winter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hear | can | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | laugh | infinitive | the papoose | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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