Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 8
The old man stopped at each wigwam and asked for food and a place to sleep during that night.
Who acts: old man · What happens: stop, ask, sleep · To what, where: wigwam
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 (old man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 wigwam | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 wigwam | det |
| 7 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 place | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 food | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 place | acl |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the old man | each wigwam | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wigwam=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man not said here | for food and a place | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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