Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 6
This brother and sister were told that their work would soon begin.
Who acts: work, brother · What happens: tell, begin, work · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (work, brother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sister | cc |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 begin | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begin | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 begin | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 begin | advmod |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | this brother and sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin | would | brother's work | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | work | brother | nom work «act 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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