Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 8
The white man has stories to tell his children, and his children laugh.
Who acts: white man, children · What happens: have, tell, laugh · To what, where: stories, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (white man, children), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stories | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laugh | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laugh | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laugh | nsubj |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the white man | stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the white man not said here | stories not said here | man's children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | man's children | 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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