Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 31

The little one ate his soup, and putting on his sister’s moccasins lay down on the buffalo robe and went to sleep.

Who acts: little one, putting · What happens: eat, put, lay down, go · To what, where: soup, moccasins, buffalo robe, sleep

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 (little one, putting), 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	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 soup	nmod:poss
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
9	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 lay	csubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 moccasins	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moccasins	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 sister	case
14	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 putting	obl
15	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	parataxis
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 robe	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 robe	det
19	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 robe	compound
20	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 sleep	case
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the little one	brother's soup			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
2	put	gerund			brother's sister's moccasins		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on moccasin=Destination
3	lay down	present	putting		the buffalo robe	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination
4	go	past	the little one not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 31