Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 3
He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that each eyelid is conquered and closed till morning.
Who acts: Weenk · What happens: come, bring, conquer, close · To what, where: many tiny warriors, eyelid
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 (Weenk), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brings | cc |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brings | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brings | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 conquered | mark |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 eyelid | det |
| 15 | eyelid | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 conquered | aux:pass |
| 17 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brings | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 closed | cc |
| 19 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 conquered | conj |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 closed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Weenk | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | Weenk not said here | many tiny warriors | with Weenk | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 3 | conquer | present · passive | each eyelid | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | close | participle | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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