Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 10

He has to do all the things his twin brother tells him to do.

Who acts: Sun, twin brother, things · What happens: have, do, tell · To what, where: things, Sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and 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 (Sun, twin brother, things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 things	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	compound
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tells	nsubj
11	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 things	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tells	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tells	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	Sun			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Sun not said here	all things		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	Sun's twin brother	all things not said here	Sun	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	all things not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 10