Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 28
“You children of the ground are very strange in your ways,” said the sun chief.
Who acts: You, children, sun chief · What happens: child, be, say · To what, where: ways · 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 (You, children, sun chief), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strange | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 children | nsubj |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strange | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 children | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strange | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 strange | advmod |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ways | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ways | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strange | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strange | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strange | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chief | compound |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | child in a quote | You | of the ground | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | children | your ways | strange property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the sun chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/67/28/