Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 42
They promised to bring the same gifts each year as long as the rains should come and the sun give his light and make them warm.
Who acts: gifts, rains, sun · What happens: promise, bring, come, give, make, light · To what, where: same gifts, light, gifts
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 (gifts, rains, sun), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gifts | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gifts | amod |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bring | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rains | det |
| 14 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 long | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | nsubj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 light | nmod:poss |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 give | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | gifts = gift | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | gifts = gift not said here | the same gifts | year | long property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||
| 3 | come | should | the rains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | present | the sun | sun's light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | the sun not said here | gifts = gift | warm property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 6 | light | sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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