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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 10

The moon shone very bright, and he thought there was a face in it, so he asked the moon to take care of him while he slept.

Who acts: moon, face · What happens: shine, think, be, ask, take, sleep · To what, where: moon, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, face), 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

detnsubjadvmodxcomppunctccnsubjconjexplccompdetnsubjcasenmodpunctadvmodnsubjconjdetobjmarkxcompobjcaseoblmarknsubjadvclpunctrootTheDETmoonNOUNshoneVERBveryADVbrightADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONthoughtVERBtherePRONwasVERBaDETfaceNOUNinADPitPRON,PUNCTsoADVhePRONaskedVERBtheDETmoonNOUNtoPARTtakeVERBcareNOUNofADPhimPRONwhileSCONJhePRONsleptVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 moondet
2moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing3 shonensubj
3shoneshineVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4veryveryADV_5 brightadvmod
5brightbrightADJDegree=Pos3 shonexcomp
6,,PUNCT_9 thoughtpunct
7andandCCONJ_9 thoughtcc
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 thoughtnsubj
9thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 shoneconj
10theretherePRONPronType=Dem11 wasexpl
11wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 thoughtccomp
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 facedet
13facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 wasnsubj
14ininADP_15 itcase
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 facenmod
16,,PUNCT_19 askedpunct
17sosoADV_19 askedadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 askednsubj
19askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 shoneconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 moondet
21moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing19 askedobj
22totoPART_23 takemark
23taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf19 askedxcomp
24carecareNOUNNumber=Sing23 takeobj
25ofofADP_26 himcase
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 takeobl
27whilewhileSCONJ_29 sleptmark
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 sleptnsubj
29sleptsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 takeadvcl
30..PUNCT_3 shonepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1shinepastthe moonbright propertyvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2think speech: otherpastmoonvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3bepasta face in mosstherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4ask speech: askpastfacethe moonvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent moon=Recipient clause=Topic
5take not said to happento-infinitivethe moon not said herecareof moonvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
6sleeppastfacevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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