Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 22
White Earth did not look nor answer him when he spoke.
Who acts: White Earth, Earth · What happens: not look, answer, speak · To what, where: Earth · 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 (White Earth, Earth), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Earth | amod |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 answer | cc |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answer | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 spoke | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | White Earth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | White Earth not said here | Earth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Earth | vn talk-37.5 «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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