Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 9
The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl.
Who acts: Night Sun · What happens: be, not hurt · To what, where: owl
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 (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 | 3 Sun | det |
| 2 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sun | compound |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurt | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cold | conj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 owl | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 owl | det |
| 12 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurt | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Night Sun | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | can | the Night Sun not said here | a owl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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