Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 19
All the animals and the birds call to Hannanna in the morning to open the door of his wigwam and let the red light come.
Who acts: animals, red light · What happens: call, open, let, come · To what, where: Hannanna, door, red light · 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 (animals, red light), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 animals | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animals | det |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 call | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 birds | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birds | det |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 animals | conj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Hannanna | case |
| 9 | Hannanna | Hannanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 open | mark |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 call | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wigwam | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 open | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 light | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 light | amod |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | obj |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | all animals and the birds | Hannanna | morning | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hannanna=Recipient | |||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | all animals and the birds not said here | the door of Hannanna's wigwam | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | all animals and the birds not said here | the red light | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the red light not said here | 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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