Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 3
He is not a strong warrior like the Day Sun, who is as red as war paint.
Who acts: Sun, strong warrior · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: strong warrior
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 (Sun, strong warrior), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 warrior | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warrior | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 warrior | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warrior | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | amod |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 9 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | compound |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 red | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 red | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 red | advmod |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 paint | case |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paint | compound |
| 18 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 red | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Sun | a strong warrior | like the Day Sun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a strong warrior | as war paint; red property | tree rules |
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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