Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 18
They are saved to make the Place of the Morning Light so beautiful that men will watch for the coming of the Day Sun.
Who acts: men · What happens: save, make, watch, come · To what, where: rivers, Place
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux:pass |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saved | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Place | det |
| 7 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Light | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Light | det |
| 10 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Light | compound |
| 11 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Place | nmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watch | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 watch | aux |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beautiful | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coming | det |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 watch | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sun. | det |
| 23 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sun. | compound |
| 24 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · passive | rivers = river | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the Place of the Morning Light | beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product | ||||
| 3 | watch | future | men | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | gerund | men not said here | sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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