Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 24

“He slept with his dog in the sun; when he stood up, his strength was gone.

Who acts: eye, strength · What happens: sleep, stand up, be · To what, where: sun

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, strength), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slept	nsubj
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stood	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 stood	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 strength	nmod:poss
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	cop
19	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	past	eye	the sun	with eye's dog	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
2	stand up in a quote	past	eye			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	eye's strength		gone property	tree rules

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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The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 24