Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 2

There were five people in it for a long time; these were the father, mother, one daughter, and two sons.

Who acts: five people, these · What happens: be · To what, where: father

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 (five people, these), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 people	nummod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 people	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
12	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 father	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 father	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 father	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 daughter	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 daughter	nummod
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sons	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sons	cc
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sons	nummod
24	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	five people in forest for a long time			there		two sons nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	these	the father and mother and one daughter				mother conj; one daughter conj	tree rules

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 2