Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 28

The end would come, for the sun could never shine again without Menabozho to guide it from the east to the west.

Who acts: end, sun · What happens: come, not shine, guide · To what, where: sun, east

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, sun), 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 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shine	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 shine	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shine	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 shine	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shine	advmod
11	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 shine	advmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 Menabozho	case
14	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shine	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 guide	mark
16	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shine	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 guide	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 east	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 east	det
20	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guide	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 west	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 west	det
23	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guide	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	the end					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not shine	could	the sun			again	without Menabozho	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	guide	to-infinitive	the sun not said here	sun	the east		to the west	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from east=Destination

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 28