Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 12

When you go on the warpath you will lose your arrows, and your scalp will hang to the belt of your enemy.

Who acts: you, scalp · What happens: go, lose, hang · To what, where: warpath, arrows

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, scalp), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 go	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hang	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 warpath	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 warpath	det
6	warpath	warpath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 lose	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lose	aux
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 warpath	acl:relcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arrows	nmod:poss
11	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lose	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hang	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hang	cc
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 scalp	nmod:poss
15	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hang	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hang	aux
17	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 belt	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 belt	det
20	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hang	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 enemy	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 enemy	nmod:poss
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 belt	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	you		the warpath		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on warpath=Location
2	lose	future	you	your arrows			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Eventuality
3	hang	future	your scalp			to the belt of your enemy	vn assuming_position-50 «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, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 12