Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 23
He slowly turned his face toward him and whispered: “Let me break my fast; I have no dreams.”
Who acts: father · What happens: turn, whisper, let, break, have · To what, where: face, father, dreams · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whispered | cc |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 break | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Let | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 dreams | det |
| 21 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | father | father's face | toward boy; slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme toward he=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | infinitive | father not said here | fast property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | father | no dreams | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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