Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 51
My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kept very quiet with his tongue.
Who acts: mother, girl, Cloud · What happens: be, not ask, keep · 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 (mother, girl, Cloud), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wise | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | cop |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 ask | advmod |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wise | parataxis |
| 10 | any | any | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 ask | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 15 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 16 | Catcher | Catcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cloud | flat |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 quiet | advmod |
| 19 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tongue | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My mother | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | future | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | past | Cloud | with father's tongue; quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
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