Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, sentence 30
If you throw me, I will tell you my name.
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: throw, tell, name · To what, where: me, name, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 throw | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | my name | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 3 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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