Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 18
They planted their corn and tried to be happy; but the girl grew very lonely, and one day when she saw another wigwam across the lake she felt like the young wolf they had tied to a tree near the wigwam.
Who acts: geese, girl, sister, young wolf · What happens: plant, try, be, grow, see, feel · To what, where: corn, wigwam, lake, geese
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 (geese, girl, sister, young wolf), 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 planted | nsubj |
| 2 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 corn | nmod:poss |
| 4 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 planted | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 happy | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happy | cop |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 planted | conj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 lonely | advmod |
| 16 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 day | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 saw | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 day | acl:relcl |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 wigwam | det |
| 25 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 lake | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lake | det |
| 28 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lake | acl:relcl |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 wolf | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wolf | det |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wolf | amod |
| 34 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | obl |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 tied | aux |
| 37 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 tree | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tree | det |
| 40 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tied | obl |
| 41 | near | near | ADP | _ | 43 wigwam | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wigwam | det |
| 43 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tree | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past | geese = goose | geese's corn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | geese = goose not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | geese = goose not said here | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the girl | day | lonely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past | sister | another wigwam | the lake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wigwam=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | feel | past | sister | the lake not said here | like the young wolf | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | |||
| 7 | tie | past · perfect · passive | the young wolf not said here | geese = goose | to a tree near the wigwam | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |
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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