Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 38
At last the north wind gave up trying to conquer the great Shingebis.
Who acts: last north wind · What happens: give up, try, conquer · To what, where: great Shingebis
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 (last north 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wind | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 4 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wind | compound |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gave | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 conquer | mark |
| 10 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Shingebis | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Shingebis | amod |
| 13 | Shingebis | Shingebi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 conquer | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the last north wind | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the last north wind not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | conquer not said to happen | to-infinitive | the last north wind not said here | the great Shingebis | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shingebi=Patient |
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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