Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 44
His songs are for the little children and for the fathers and mothers who want their little ones to be brave.
Who acts: songs, mothers, little ones, Opechee · What happens: be, want, sing · To what, where: little ones
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 (songs, mothers, little ones, Opechee), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 songs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 children | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 children | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fathers | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fathers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fathers | det |
| 11 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 children | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mothers | cc |
| 13 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fathers | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mothers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 want | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 brave | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 brave | cop |
| 21 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 want | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Opechee's songs | for the little children and the fathers and mothers; the fathers and mothers conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | mothers | songs's little ones | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | songs's little ones not said here | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing | Opechee | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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