Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 24
The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for they always tell new stories of what the little warriors can do.
Who acts: story, stories, little warriors · What happens: buzz, be, tell, do · To what, where: Weenk, new stories · 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 (story, stories, little warriors), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 buzzing | mark |
| 4 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 story | acl |
| 5 | Weenk | Weenk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 buzzing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 band | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 band | nmod:poss |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buzzing | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fresh | cop |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fresh | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fresh | parataxis |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 what | case |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stories | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 warriors | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 warriors | amod |
| 24 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | gerund | the story not said here | Weenk | Weenk's band conj | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weenk=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the story | evening | fresh property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | stories = story | new stories | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | can | the little warriors | vn act-114-1 «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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