Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 32
The Indians dance the sun dance when the Night Sun is round and white.
Who acts: Indians, Night Sun · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: sun dance
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 (Indians, Night 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 | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 dance | nsubj |
| 3 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dance | compound |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dance | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 round | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 9 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | compound |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 round | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 round | cop |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dance | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 white | cc |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 round | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | the Indians | the sun dance | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Night Sun | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the Night Sun not said here | 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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