Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 8

He hated the white people, for his white father had basely deserted his mother when Se-quoyah was a helpless babe.

Who acts: Georgia, white father, Se quoyah · What happens: hate, desert, be · To what, where: white people, mother, helpless babe

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Georgia, white father, Se quoyah), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hated	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deserted	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 deserted	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deserted	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deserted	aux
12	basely	basely	ADV	_	13 deserted	advmod
13	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 hated	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deserted	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 babe	advmod
17	Se	se	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 quoyah	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Se	punct
19	quoyah	quoyah	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 babe	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 babe	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 babe	det
22	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 babe	amod
23	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deserted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	Georgia	the white people		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	desert	past · perfect	Georgia's white father	Georgia's mother	basely property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme mother=Source
3	is a	past	Se quoyah	a helpless babe		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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 8

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 8