Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 71
You have many winters to see before you can stay here forever.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, see, stay
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winters | amod |
| 4 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 winters | acl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 stay | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | aux |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stay | advmod |
| 12 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 10 stay | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | winter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stay | can | you | here | forever property | vn exist-47.1 «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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