Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 30
The father gave back his gifts to the war chief, for Leelinaw could not be found.
Who acts: father, deerskin · What happens: give back, not find, gift · To what, where: gifts, war chief, Leelinaw
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, deerskin), 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 | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | compound |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 13 | Leelinaw | Leelinaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 found | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | the father | deerskin's gifts | the war chief | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to chief=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not find | could · passive | Leelinaw | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gift | deerskin | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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