Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 9

Some white men had heard the questions of the Indian before he started out, and after he came back they went to him and said: “We want to know who took your meat.

Who acts: white men, man, questions, We · What happens: hear, start out, come back, go, say, want · To what, where: questions, man, meat · 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 (white men, man, questions, We), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 men	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 questions	det
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Indian	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Indian	det
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 questions	acl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 started	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 started	nsubj
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Indian	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 started	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 know	ccomp
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 meat	nmod:poss
36	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	some white men	the questions			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer question=Stimulus
2	start out	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	come back	past	man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	questions = question		man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	questions = question not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	want in a quote	present	We				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	take in a quote	past		your meat		who nsubj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

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 9

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 9