Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 6
“But you promised to stay until the little one was grown tall.
Who acts: you · What happens: promise, stay, grow · To what, where: little one
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), 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 promised | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 promised | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 grown | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grown | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grown | aux:pass |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stay | advcl |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grown | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | past · passive | the little one | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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