Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 5
She was forever asking the Great Spirit to tell her.
Who acts: woman · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: Great Spirit, woman · 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), 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 asking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asking | aux |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 asking | advmod |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Spirit | det |
| 6 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Spirit | flat |
| 7 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asking | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asking | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | woman | the Great Spirit | forever property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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