Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 48
The boy told only a little, for it seemed like a foolish dream, and he was afraid no one would believe him.
Who acts: boy, it, one · What happens: tell, seem, be, believe · To what, where: boy · 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 (boy, it, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 seemed | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 13 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dream | amod |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | aux |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 afraid | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | like a foolish dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | boy | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | would | no one | boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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