Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 19
But all the world would be happy if she smiled and welcomed the fifth stranger.
Who acts: world, sister · What happens: be, smile, welcome · To what, where: fifth stranger
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 (world, sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 happy | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 world | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | cop |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 smiled | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smiled | nsubj |
| 10 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 welcomed | cc |
| 12 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smiled | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stranger | det |
| 14 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stranger | amod |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcomed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | all world | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smile a condition, not said to happen | past | sister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | welcome | past | sister not said here | the fifth stranger | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
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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