Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 26
Come to this place and seek for me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, seek · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seek | cc |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 seek | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | this place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | for me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=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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