Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 5

For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to the wigwam; then he told his sister that he must go with some braves he had seen in the forest, and be a great warrior like his father.

Who acts: older boy, boy · What happens: hunt, fish, bring, tell, go, see · To what, where: food, wigwam, sister, braves, forest, great warrior · 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 (older boy, boy), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moons	case
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moons	nummod
3	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunted	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunted	nsubj
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fished	cc
9	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunted	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fished	conj
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wigwam	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wigwam	det
15	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 told	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunted	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sister	nmod:poss
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 braves	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 braves	det
28	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 go	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 braves	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 forest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 warrior	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 warrior	cc
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 warrior	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 warrior	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 warrior	amod
40	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 father	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 warrior	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	the older boy					for twelve moons	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for moon=Theme
2	fish	past	the older boy not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	the older boy not said here	food		the wigwam			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to wigwam=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	past	boy		boy's sister		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go	must	boy					with some braves	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brave=Beneficiary
6	see	past · perfect	boy	some braves not said here		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brave=Stimulus
7	is a	infinitive		a great warrior				like boy's father	tree rules

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 5