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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 3

There is a story of two captive squaws who were promised life and freedom if they would lead their captors to the place where the squaws’ own people were hidden.

Who acts: story, life · What happens: be, promise, lead, hide · To what, where: two captive squaws, captors, place, own people

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, life), 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

expldetnsubjcasenummodamodnmodnsubjaux:passacl:relclobjccconjmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjcasedetobladvmoddetnmod:posscaseamodnsubjaux:passacl:relclpunctrootTherePRONisVERBaDETstoryNOUNofADPtwoNUMcaptiveADJsquawsNOUNwhoPRONwereAUXpromisedVERBlifeNOUNandCCONJfreedomNOUNifSCONJtheyPRONwouldAUXleadVERBtheirPRONcaptorsNOUNtoADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVtheDETsquawsNOUN’PARTownADJpeopleNOUNwereAUXhiddenVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 storydet
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
5ofofADP_8 squawscase
6twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 squawsnummod
7captivecaptiveADJDegree=Pos8 squawsamod
8squawssquawNOUNNumber=Plur4 storynmod
9whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 promisednsubj
10werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 promisedaux:pass
11promisedpromiseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 squawsacl:relcl
12lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 promisedobj
13andandCCONJ_14 freedomcc
14freedomfreedomNOUNNumber=Sing12 lifeconj
15ififSCONJ_18 leadmark
16theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 leadnsubj
17wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin18 leadaux
18leadleadVERBVerbForm=Inf11 promisedadvcl
19theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 captorsnmod:poss
20captorscaptorNOUNNumber=Plur18 leadobj
21totoADP_23 placecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 placedet
23placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing18 leadobl
24wherewhereADVPronType=Rel31 hiddenadvmod
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 squawsdet
26squawssquawNOUNNumber=Plur29 peoplenmod:poss
27’'sPART_26 squawscase
28ownownADJDegree=Pos29 peopleamod
29peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur31 hiddennsubj
30werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 hiddenaux:pass
31hiddenhideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 placeacl:relcl
32..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta story of two captive squawstherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2promise speech: promisepast · passivetwo captive squawslife and freedom objvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal life=Theme
3lead a condition, not said to happenwouldlifelife's captorsthe placevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captor=Theme to place=Destination
4hidepast · passivethe squaws's own peoplevn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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