Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 8
The eye of my father never grew dim; his strength grew with the days.
Who acts: eye, strength · What happens: not grow, grow
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 (eye, strength), 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 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eye | nmod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 grew | advmod |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 strength | nmod:poss |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | past | the eye of my father | dim property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | eye's strength | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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