Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 26
He would see the creature that did not care for his hurting.
Who acts: wind, creature · What happens: see, not care, hurt · To what, where: creature
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 (wind, creature), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 care | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 care | advmod |
| 9 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 hurting | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hurting | nsubj |
| 12 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 care | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | wind | the creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | the creature | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hurt | gerund | wind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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