Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 25
It is better for the boy never to see the place where I sleep.”
Who acts: boy, I · What happens: be, not see, sleep · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, I), 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 | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | to-infinitive | the boy | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | I | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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