Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 4
His eyes are always toward the cool north, but he will not stir from his resting place.
Who acts: eyes, Algonquin · What happens: be, not stir · To what, where: resting place
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Algonquin), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 north | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 north | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 north | advmod |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 north | det |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 north | amod |
| 8 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stir | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stir | advmod |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 north | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | compound |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 north | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Algonquin's eyes | toward the cool north; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stir | future | Algonquin | Algonquin's resting place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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