Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 5
They do much good, like their fathers and their mothers.
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | aux |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fathers | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fathers | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 good | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mothers | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fathers | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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