Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 29
“You have all the sky to make you happy, but now you are crying for meat.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, make, cry · To what, where: sky, you
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), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sky | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crying | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 crying | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 crying | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 crying | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 crying | aux |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 have | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 meat | case |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | You | all sky | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | you | now | for meat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for meat=Recipient |
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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