Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 12

He hides his face and tries to go away, but he always comes back and is glad to start again.

Who acts: Sun · What happens: hide, try, go away, come back, be, start · To what, where: face

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), 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 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tries	cc
6	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hides	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tries	xcomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 comes	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comes	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 comes	advmod
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hides	parataxis
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glad	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 glad	cop
18	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 comes	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 start	mark
20	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 glad	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 start	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Sun	Sun's face			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	try	present	Sun not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sun not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	present	Sun			always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	Sun not said here			glad property	tree rules
6	start	to-infinitive	Sun not said here		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 12