Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 15

She has never stopped asking, the manitou has never answered, and her weaving has never been finished.

Who acts: question · What happens: not stop, ask, not answer, not finish, weave · To what, where: manitou, weaving · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stopped	advmod
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 manitou	det
8	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 answered	advmod
11	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asking	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finished	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 finished	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weaving	nmod:poss
15	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finished	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 finished	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 finished	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 finished	aux:pass
19	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stopped	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not stop	present · perfect	question		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	question not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not answer speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the manitou	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality
4	not finish	present · perfect · passive		question's weaving	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	weave		question		nom weaving «act transitive»: 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 15