Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 25
“You are welcome,” said the old squaw who came out to meet her.
Who acts: You, old squaw · What happens: be, say, come out, meet · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, old squaw), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 welcome | cop |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squaw | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 squaw | amod |
| 10 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 squaw | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old squaw | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the old squaw | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the old squaw not said here | answer | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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