Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 11
The Indians watch the sun, moon, and stars a great deal and know much more about them than many white people who have no time for such study.
Who acts: Indians, many white people · What happens: watch, know, have · To what, where: sun, more
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, many white people), 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 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moon | punct |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sun | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stars | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stars | cc |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watch | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stars | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deal | conj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 more | nmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 more | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 people | acl:relcl |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 study | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 study | amod |
| 30 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | the Indians | the sun and moon | stars parataxis | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | the Indians not said here | more than many white people | about Indians = indian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | present | many white people | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «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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