Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 18
She must not be afraid if they fell down with no more life in them when she did not answer.
Who acts: sister, spirits · What happens: not be, fall down, not answer
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 fell | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 life | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | obl |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 answer | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 answer | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 answer | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 answer | advmod |
| 20 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fell | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | must | sister | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall down a condition, not said to happen | past | spirits = spirit | with no more life; in gifts = gift; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in they=Location | ||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | sister | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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