Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 30

The little chief showed the Ojibway chief the star in the north, the star that never moves.

Who acts: little chief, star · What happens: show, not move · To what, where: Ojibway chief

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little chief, star), 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	3 chief	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chief	amod
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chief	det
6	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chief	compound
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 star	det
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chief	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 star	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 star	det
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	appos
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 moves	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 moves	advmod
18	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 star	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the little chief	the Ojibway chief and the star in the north					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient
2	not move	present	the star						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 30