Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 36

It was cold, and if the men went their families would suffer, for they must be gone some weeks.

Who acts: land, men, families · What happens: be, go, suffer · To what, where: families

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, men, families), 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	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 families	nmod:poss
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 suffer	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 suffer	aux
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 gone	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gone	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 gone	aux:pass
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 suffer	advcl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 weeks	det
21	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gone	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	land			cold property	tree rules
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	the men				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer	would	men's families				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	must · passive		families = family	week		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 36