Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 16
The Day Sun can burn up a little river.
Who acts: Day Sun · What happens: burn up · To what, where: little river
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 (Day 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sun | det |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sun | compound |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burn | aux |
| 5 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 burn | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn up | can | the Day Sun | a little river | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
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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