Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 49
The band of warriors deserted him in the forest, and he never went on the warpath again.
Who acts: band, brother · What happens: desert, not go · To what, where: brother, forest, warpath
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 (band, 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 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 warriors | case |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 band | nmod |
| 5 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deserted | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserted | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 warpath | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 warpath | det |
| 17 | warpath | warpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert | past | the band of warriors | brother | the forest | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source | |||
| 2 | not go | past | brother | the warpath | again | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on warpath=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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