Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 9
The brother knew his work was to be a watcher among the rocks and hills.
Who acts: brother, work, Light · What happens: know, be, work · To what, where: watcher · 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 (brother, work, Light), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watcher | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 watcher | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 watcher | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watcher | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 watcher | det |
| 10 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hills | cc |
| 15 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rocks | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the brother | among the rocks and hills | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Light's work | a watcher | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | Light | 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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