Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 4

He had won his name by his great feats of bravery; his eyes never grew dim with sickness nor pain; he had never shown fear.

Who acts: story, eyes · What happens: win, not grow, not show, name · To what, where: name, fear

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 (story, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 won	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	aux
3	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 feats	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feats	nmod:poss
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feats	amod
9	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	obl:agent
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bravery	case
11	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feats	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 grew	advmod
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	conj
17	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 sickness	case
19	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 pain	cc
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sickness	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 shown	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shown	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shown	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 shown	advmod
26	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 won	conj
27	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shown	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win	past · perfect	story	story's name	story's great feats of bravery obl:agent	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality
2	not grow	past	story's eyes		with sickness nor pain; dim property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not show	past · perfect	story	fear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient
4	name		story			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 4