Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 11
A kind old squaw came out of this wigwam and brought food to him, and spread out skins for his bed.
Who acts: kind old squaw · What happens: come out, bring, spread out · To what, where: wigwam, food, squaw, skins
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind old squaw), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 squaw | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squaw | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squaw | amod |
| 4 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 wigwam | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wigwam | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wigwam | det |
| 9 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spread | cc |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 spread | compound:prt |
| 19 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spread | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skins | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | a kind old squaw | this wigwam | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wigwam=Result | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | a kind old squaw not said here | food | squaw | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | spread out | infinitive | a kind old squaw not said here | skins | for squaw's bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme |
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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