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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 34

It smiled on him like the face of his sister; he knew her; his sister was the Morning Star in the Place of Breaking Light.

Who acts: star, Lodge, sister · What happens: smile, know, be · To what, where: sister, Morning Star, Place

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 (star, Lodge, sister), 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

nsubjcaseoblcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjparataxisobjpunctnmod:possnsubjcopdetcompoundoblcasedetnmodcasecompoundnmodpunctrootItPRONsmiledVERBonADPhimPRONlikeADPtheDETfaceNOUNofADPhisPRONsisterNOUN;PUNCThePRONknewVERBherPRON;PUNCThisPRONsisterNOUNwasAUXtheDETMorningPROPNStarPROPNinADPtheDETPlaceNOUNofADPBreakingPROPNLightPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 smilednsubj
2smiledsmileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADP_4 himcase
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 smiledobl
5likelikeADP_7 facecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 facedet
7facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing2 smiledobl
8ofofADP_10 sistercase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 sisternmod:poss
10sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing7 facenmod
11;;PUNCT_13 knewpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 knewnsubj
13knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 smiledparataxis
14hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 knewobj
15;;PUNCT_21 Starpunct
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 sisternmod:poss
17sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing21 Starnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 Starcop
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Stardet
20MorningMorningPROPNNumber=Sing21 Starcompound
21StarStarPROPNNumber=Sing13 knewobl
22ininADP_24 Placecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Placedet
24PlaceplaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 Starnmod
25ofofADP_27 Lightcase
26BreakingBreakingPROPNNumber=Sing27 Lightcompound
27LightLightPROPNNumber=Sing24 Placenmod
28..PUNCT_2 smiledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1smilepaststaron Lodge; like the face of Lodge's sistervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2knowpastLodgesistervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3is apastLodge's sisterthe Morning Starthe Place of Breaking Lighttree rules

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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