Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 47
The mother bear and the cubs welcomed him, and the boy was happy.
Who acts: mother bear, boy · What happens: welcome, be · To what, where: boy
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 (mother bear, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | compound |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcomed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cubs | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cubs | det |
| 6 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bear | conj |
| 7 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 welcomed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | cop |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 welcomed | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | the mother bear and the cubs | boy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the boy | happy property | 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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