Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 36
It is not wise to look around in battle.”
What happens: not be, look around
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wise | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wise | advmod |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wise | csubj |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look around | to-infinitive | in battle; around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in battle=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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