Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 27
When you see the sun again, you will find a young hemlock tree growing by the door of your wigwam.
Who acts: you, young hemlock tree · What happens: see, find, grow · To what, where: sun, young hemlock tree
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young hemlock tree), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 13 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tree | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wigwam | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | the sun | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | future | you | a young hemlock tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a young hemlock tree not said here | by the door of your wigwam | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location |
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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