Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 4

The girl and the oldest boy promised faithfully to care for their little brother, who was weak and suffered often from sickness.

Who acts: girl, little brother · What happens: promise, care, be, suffer · To what, where: sickness

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 (girl, little brother), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 boy	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	conj
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	7 promised	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 care	mark
10	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promised	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 brother	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brother	amod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 care	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weak	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 weak	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 weak	cop
18	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brother	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 suffered	cc
20	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 weak	conj
21	often	often	ADV	_	23 sickness	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 sickness	case
23	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suffered	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the girl and the oldest boy		faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	care not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl and the oldest boy not said here		for girl's little brother	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for brother=Theme
3	is	past	girl's little brother		weak property	tree rules
4	suffer	participle	girl's little brother not said here	sickness		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 4