Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 22
Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the sun was off on his journeys.
Who acts: you, girl, Catcher · What happens: cloud, play off, journey · To what, where: Catcher, fields
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 (you, girl, Catcher), 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 | Cloud | cloud | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Catcher | Catcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cloud | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 played | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | nsubj |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cloud | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fields | det |
| 9 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 off | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 off | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 off | cop |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 played | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 journeys | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | imperative | you not said here | Catcher | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent catcher=Patient | ||||
| 2 | play off | past | the girl | the fields | day | on Catcher's journeys | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | journey | Catcher | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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