Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 40

He was so small that the sun burned his hands and made him blind when he tried to let it out.

Who acts: man, sun · What happens: be, burn, make, try, let out · To what, where: hands, man, sun

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sun), 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	4 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 burned	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burned	nsubj
8	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burned	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 tried	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tried	nsubj
17	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tried	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	19 let	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		small property	tree rules
2	burn	past	the sun	man's hands		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	make	past	the sun not said here	man	blind property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	try	past	man			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	let out not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	sun		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 40