Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 37
The brother gave his sister White Earth to Mondahmin, for the Good Spirit had sent him to her.
Who acts: brother · What happens: give, send · To what, where: sister, Good Spirit, Mondahmin
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 (brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 6 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Earth | amod |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | appos |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mondahmin | case |
| 9 | Mondahmin | Mondahmin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Spirit | det |
| 13 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Spirit | flat |
| 14 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the brother | brother's sister | to Mondahmin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to mondahmin=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the Good Spirit | Mondahmin | brother obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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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