Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 12
“The great water manitou comes out when the sun is hottest to rest on the shore.
Who acts: great water manitou, sun · What happens: come out, be, rest · To what, where: shore
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great water manitou, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manitou | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manitou | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manitou | compound |
| 5 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 comes | compound:prt |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 hottest | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hottest | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hottest | cop |
| 12 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 comes | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rest | mark |
| 14 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hottest | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out in a quote | present | the great water manitou | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the sun | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | the shore | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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