Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 23
No one had welcomed him but the Bear band.
What happens: welcome · To what, where: one
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 welcomed | aux |
| 4 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 welcomed | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 band | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 band | det |
| 8 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 band | compound |
| 9 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 welcomed | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past · perfect · passive | no one | man obj; the Bear band conj | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme he=Location |
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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