Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 54
He was very wild and did not love his people, for they had killed the bears.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, not love, kill · To what, where: people
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wild | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wild | advmod |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 love | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wild | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 love | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 killed | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 love | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bears | det |
| 17 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not love | past · do-support | boy not said here | boy's people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | people | the bears obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer bear=Result |
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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