Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 34

He never went into battle, for he had much to keep him away; yet he wore eagle feathers in his scalp lock.

Who acts: Iagoo · What happens: not go, have, keep away, wear · To what, where: battle, much, Iagoo, eagle feathers, scalp lock

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iagoo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 battle	case
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 had	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 much	acl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wore	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 wore	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wore	nsubj
18	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feathers	compound
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wore	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 lock	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lock	nmod:poss
23	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lock	compound
24	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wore	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past	Iagoo		battle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into battle=Initial_Location
2	have	past	Iagoo	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	keep away	to-infinitive		Iagoo		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	wear	past	Iagoo	eagle feathers	Iagoo's scalp lock		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Source

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, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 34