Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 12

The sister sat with the brother and watched the sun go down in the Big Sea Water.

Who acts: sister, sun · What happens: sit, watch, go down

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 brother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watched	cc
8	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watched	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 Water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Water	det
15	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Water	amod
16	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Water	compound
17	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the sister	with the brother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past	the sister not said here		tree rules
3	go down	infinitive	the sun	in the Big Sea Water; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute

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, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 12