Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 46
The Indians do not forget to give thanks for the corn, bean, pumpkin, and melon.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: not forget, give · To what, where: thanks
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 (Indians), 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 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forget | xcomp |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 corn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corn | det |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bean | punct |
| 13 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pumpkin | punct |
| 15 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 melon | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 melon | cc |
| 18 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | present · do-support | the Indians | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the Indians not said here | thanks melon and bean and pumpkin | for the corn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for corn=Asset |
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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