Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 2
“Brothers, hear! and with the heart keep my words.
Who acts: Brothers, my · What happens: hear, keep, word · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 2 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Brothers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Brothers not said here | my words | with the heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication 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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