Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 12
It shows that it is always in the heart of man to admire the brave deeds of another, even though the hero is an enemy.
Who acts: It, plant, hero · What happens: show, be, admire · To what, where: heart, brave deeds, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, plant, hero), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 heart | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heart | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 heart | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 admire | mark |
| 13 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shows | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 deeds | det |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deeds | amod |
| 16 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 admire | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 another | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 deeds | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 enemy | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 enemy | advmod |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 enemy | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hero | det |
| 23 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enemy | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 enemy | cop |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 enemy | det |
| 26 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 admire | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | It | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | plant | the heart | of man; always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | admire | to-infinitive | the brave deeds of another | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hero | a enemy | 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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