Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 15

You can see this smoke go up from the water if you will sit still and watch.

Who acts: You, smoke · What happens: see, go up, sit, watch · To what, where: smoke, water

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 (You, smoke), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 smoke	det
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	xcomp
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 sit	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 sit	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 watch	cc
17	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	can	You	this smoke			tree rules
2	go up	infinitive	this smoke not said here		the water		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sit a condition, not said to happen	future	you			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	infinitive	you not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 15