Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 16

The sister and the little brother lived together in the wigwam until the wild geese had come and gone three times from the lake in the forest.

Who acts: sister, wild geese · What happens: live together, come, go · To what, where: wigwam, lake

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 (sister, wild geese), 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	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brother	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	conj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wigwam	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wigwam	det
11	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 geese	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 geese	amod
15	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lived	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gone	cc
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 come	conj
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 times	nummod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gone	obl:unmarked
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lake	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	past	the sister and the little brother	the wigwam		together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location
2	come	past · perfect	the wild geese				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	participle	the wild geese not said here	the lake in the forest	time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 16