Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 17
If she did not say anything nor see them, they would give her greater gifts than she could ask.
Who acts: sister, spirits · What happens: not say, see, give, ask · To what, where: anything, spirits, greater gifts, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, spirits), 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 | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | advcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 gifts | amod |
| 16 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ask | aux |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 gifts | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | sister | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | sister not said here | spirits = spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | would | spirits = spirit | greater gifts | sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gift=Theme | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | could | sister | greater gifts not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient |
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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