Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 33
He looks at the Indians and tells his brother of the dance.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: look, tell · To what, where: brother · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Indians | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 looks | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tells | cc |
| 7 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tells | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dance | det |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Sun | at the Indians | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at indian=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Sun not said here | Sun's brother of the dance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/84/33/