Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 3

Then he went to a wigwam near by and asked: “Did you see a little, old, white man with a short gun?

Who acts: Indian, you · What happens: go, ask, see · To what, where: wigwam, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wigwam	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wigwam	det
6	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	near	near	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 near	fixed
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
13	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 gun	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gun	det
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gun	amod
26	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Indian		a wigwam	then	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Indian not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	past · do-support	you	a little			old obl; white man with a short gun obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 3