Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 5

The boy cried himself to sleep, for he knew his father could not find him.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: cry, sleep, know, not find · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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, father), 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	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 cried	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the boy	boy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not find	could	boy's father	boy	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 5