Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 30
It is not wise, but you shall have it, for you are one of us, and whatever you ask must be given.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, have, be, ask, give · To what, where: meat, whatever
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wise | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wise | advmod |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wise | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 have | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whatever | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whatever | cc |
| 20 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 given | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | nsubj |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 given | aux:pass |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wise | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | meat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | for one; of us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give | must · passive | whatever | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» |
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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