Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 4
She did not know when this world would come to an end.
Who acts: woman, world · What happens: not know, come · To what, where: end · 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 (woman, world), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 come | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | would | this world | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location |
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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