Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 19

Light will come”; and before any one knew it the sun began to rise.

Who acts: Light, one, sun · What happens: come, know, begin, rise · To what, where: chipmunk

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Light, one, sun), 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	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rise	mark
16	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	future	Light		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know in a quote	past	any one	chipmunk	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	begin in a quote	past	the sun		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rise in a quote	to-infinitive	the sun not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 19