Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 44

The boy should go with him, and all the other animals would help to gather the nuts for his feeding.

Who acts: boy, other animals, council · What happens: go, help, gather, feed · To what, where: nuts

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, other animals, council), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 animals	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 gather	mark
16	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nuts	det
18	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gather	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 feeding	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feeding	nmod:poss
21	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gather	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	should	the boy		with council	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
2	help	would	all other animals			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	gather	to-infinitive	all other animals not said here	the nuts	for council's feeding	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nut=Theme for feeding=Beneficiary
4	feed		council			nom feeding «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 44