Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 37
Then the two Indians went to the village and told the father and mother of Leelinaw.
Who acts: two Indians · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: village, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two Indians), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Indians | nummod |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mother | cc |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Leelinaw | case |
| 16 | Leelinaw | Leelinaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two Indians | the village | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the two Indians not said here | the father and mother of Leelinaw | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient |
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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