Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 27
The little one came and led the way to a great cave filled with food and furs.
Who acts: little one · What happens: come, lead, fill · To what, where: way, great cave
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 led | cc |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cave | amod |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cave | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 furs | cc |
| 17 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the little one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the little one not said here | the way | a great cave | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to cave=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | participle | a great cave not said here | with food and furs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with food=Instrument |
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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