Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 22
As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars.
Who acts: leader, light · What happens: not be, light · To what, where: Great Star
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 content | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 content | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 content | advmod |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Star | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Star | det |
| 8 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Star | amod |
| 9 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 content | obl |
| 10 | Wigwam | Wigwam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Star | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bright | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 light | nmod:poss |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bright | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bright | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bright | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 bright | advmod |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 content | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 bright | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stars | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stars | det |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 stars | nummod |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stars | amod |
| 24 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 that | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | leader | the Great Star | content property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | leader's light | as that of the six other stars; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | light | leader | nom light «phenomenon 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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