Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 14

They hid by the river until Kwasind came in his great canoe asleep; the nibanabas had sung him to sleep.

Who acts: people, Kwasind · What happens: hide, come, sing, sleep · To what, where: great canoe, nibanabas

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Kwasind), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	Kwasind	Kwasind	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 canoe	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 canoe	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 canoe	amod
12	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sung	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nibanabas	det
16	nibanabas	nibanaba	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sung	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sung	aux
18	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hid	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sung	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sleep	mark
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sung	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	people			by the river	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
2	come	past	Kwasind		Marie's great canoe		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location
3	sing speech: express	past · perfect · passive		the nibanabas		Marie obj	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 14