Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 23
Then the children know it is time for them to lie down to sleep, and soon the wigwam is still.
Who acts: children, star, wigwam · What happens: know, be, lie down, sleep · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, star, wigwam), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lie | mark |
| 11 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 lie | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lie | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 still | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 still | cc |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 wigwam | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wigwam | det |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 still | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 still | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 know | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the children | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | star | time | for children = child | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie down | to-infinitive | the children not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | the children not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the wigwam | still property | tree rules |
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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