Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 12

I will try once more to see if he will give up to me.”

Who acts: I, wind · What happens: try, see, give up · To what, where: more, me

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wind), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 try	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 try	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 more	advcl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 give	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	try	future	I	more		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	give up a condition, not said to happen	future	wind		me	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 12