Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 22
Ask your wise men what shape I may take that I may always stay and be loved by their people.”
Who acts: you, wise men, I, people · What happens: ask, shape, take, stay, love · To what, where: wise men
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wise men, I, people), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 men | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obj |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 shape | nsubj |
| 6 | shape | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | acl:relcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shape | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | aux |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 stay | advmod |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 loved | aux:pass |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stay | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 loved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | your wise men | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shape | present | your wise men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | may | I | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stay | may | I | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | infinitive · passive | men's people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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