Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 57

The white-haired chief had told him when he left the lodge that he would find this lake, and on its shore he would meet his lost bride.

Who acts: rabbit · What happens: tell, leave, find, meet, lose · To what, where: haired chief, rabbit, lodge, lake, lost bride, shore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit), 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	5 chief	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 haired	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 white	punct
4	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chief	amod
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 left	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lodge	det
13	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lodge	acl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 lake	det
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 meet	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 meet	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 shore	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shore	nmod:poss
24	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meet	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 meet	aux
27	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bride	nmod:poss
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bride	amod
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the haired chief	rabbit		tree rules
2	leave	past	rabbit	the lodge			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme
3	find	would	rabbit	this lake			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic
4	meet	would	rabbit	rabbit's lost bride		lake's shore	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Co-Agent
5	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 57