Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 23
On his way he talks to the Night Sun. You cannot see the canoe of the Day Sun.
Who acts: warrior, You · What happens: talk, not see · To what, where: way, canoe
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 (warrior, You), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talks | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talks | nsubj |
| 5 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Sun. | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun. | det |
| 8 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sun. | compound |
| 9 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talks | obl |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 talks | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 canoe | det |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sun. | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun. | det |
| 18 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sun. | compound |
| 19 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 canoe | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | warrior | warrior's way | sunday | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | can | You | the canoe of the Day Sun. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus |
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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