Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 15
He jumped on his pony and rode away to the band of warriors he had seen.
Who acts: boy · What happens: jump, ride away, see · To what, where: band, warriors
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 (boy), 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 | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 pony | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pony | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rode | cc |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 rode | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 band | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 band | det |
| 11 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 warriors | case |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 band | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | boy | on boy's pony | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pony=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | boy not said here | the band of warriors | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to band=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | boy | warriors not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus |
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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