Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 5
The wicked spirit would not let one person thank the Good Spirit for his gifts to them.
Who acts: wicked spirit, one person, person · What happens: not let, thank, gift · To what, where: Good Spirit
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 (wicked spirit, one person, person), 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 | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 person | nummod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thank | nsubj |
| 9 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Spirit | det |
| 11 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Spirit | amod |
| 12 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 gifts | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thank | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | would | the wicked spirit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | one person | the Good Spirit | for person's gifts to spirits | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme for gift=Attribute | |||
| 3 | gift | person | to spirits = spirit | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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