Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 34
The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gifts to them.
Who acts: Day Sun, Indians, Sun · What happens: be, know, give, gift · To what, where: thanks · 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 (Day Sun, Indians, 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 | 3 Sun | det |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sun | compound |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Indians | det |
| 10 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 gifts | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Day Sun | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the Day Sun not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give | present | the Indians | thanks | for Sun's gifts to gifts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for gift=Asset | |||
| 4 | gift | Sun | to gifts = gift | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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