Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 15
Turn your face to the Place of the Breaking Light when you waken from your sleep in the morning; watch for your sister.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: turn, waken, watch, sleep · To what, where: face, Place, sleep
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 (you, your), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Place | det |
| 6 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Light | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Light | det |
| 9 | Breaking | Breaking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Light | compound |
| 10 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Place | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 waken | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 waken | nsubj |
| 13 | waken | waken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waken | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waken | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 watch | punct |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sister | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | your face | the Place of the Breaking Light | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme to place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | waken | present | you | your sleep | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | for your sister | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for sister=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | your | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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