Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 15

The mother knew her child’s heart, and the father said it should be as Leelinaw had asked.

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: know, say, ask · To what, where: heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	nsubj:pass
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 asked	aux:pass
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 asked	mark
17	Leelinaw	Leelinaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 asked	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	aux
19	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the mother	mother's child's heart		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	should · perfect · passive		heart	Leelinaw nsubj	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 15