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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 46

“Who is this that stands watching you, with eyes that show the tears they cannot shed?”

Who acts: eyes, tears · What happens: watch, show, not shed · To what, where: you, tears

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, tears), 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

punctnsubjcopnsubjnsubjauxobjpunctcaseobjnsubjacl:relcldetobjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctpunctroot“PUNCTWhoPRONisAUXthisPRONthatPRONstandsVERBwatchingVERByouPRON,PUNCTwithADPeyesNOUNthatPRONshowVERBtheDETtearsNOUNtheyPRONcanAUXnotPARTshedVERB?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 watchingpunct
2WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 standsnsubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 standscop
4thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 standsnsubj
5thatthatPRONPronType=Rel6 standsnsubj
6standsstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 watchingaux
7watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
8youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs7 watchingobj
9,,PUNCT_11 eyespunct
10withwithADP_11 eyescase
11eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur7 watchingobj
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel13 shownsubj
13showshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 eyesacl:relcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 tearsdet
15tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur13 showobj
16theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 shednsubj
17cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin19 shedaux
18notnotPARTPolarity=Neg19 shedadvmod
19shedshedVERBVerbForm=Inf15 tearsacl:relcl
20??PUNCT_7 watchingpunct
21”"PUNCT_7 watchingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watch in a quotepresentyoueyes objvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme eye=Attribute
2show in a quotepresenteyesthe tearsvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient
3not shed in a quotecantears = tearthe tears not said herevn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source

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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