Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 4
The chief was brave, but his heart was not strong enough to bear this loss.
Who acts: chief, heart · What happens: be, not be, bear · To what, where: loss
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, heart), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | cop |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 strong | advmod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brave | conj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bear | mark |
| 14 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strong | advcl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 loss | det |
| 16 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chief | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Chippewa's heart | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | Chippewa's heart not said here | this loss | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Patient |
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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