Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 24
She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which was their bed, and while the little brother was playing at hunting she ran away to the wigwam they had seen.
Who acts: answer, buffalo robe, little brother, moccasins · What happens: put, be, play, hunt, run away, see · To what, where: own moccasins, buffalo robe, bed, wigwam
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 (answer, buffalo robe, little brother, moccasins), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moccasins | amod |
| 5 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 suit | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 suit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 suit | amod |
| 9 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moccasins | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 robe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 robe | det |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 robe | compound |
| 13 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bed | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bed | cop |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 robe | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 playing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 playing | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 playing | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brother | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brother | amod |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 playing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 playing | aux |
| 25 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 put | advcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 hunting | case |
| 27 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 playing | advcl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hunting | ccomp |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 ran | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 wigwam | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wigwam | det |
| 33 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 away | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seen | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 wigwam | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | answer | answer's own moccasins and answer's new suit | the buffalo robe and robe's bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Theme on robe=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the buffalo robe and robe's bed | robe's bed | robe nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | past · progressive | the little brother | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | the little brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run away | past | answer | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | moccasins = moccasin | the wigwam not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wigwam=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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