Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 56

He learned the ways of his people again, but never did he shoot or trap a bear.

Who acts: boy · What happens: learn, not shoot, trap · To what, where: ways, bear

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	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ways	det
4	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learned	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ways	nmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	2 learned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shoot	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 shoot	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 shoot	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shoot	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shoot	nsubj
14	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 trap	cc
16	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shoot	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trap	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	learn	past	boy	the ways of boy's people	again	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	not shoot	past · do-support	boy			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	trap	infinitive	boy not said here	a bear		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 56