Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 14

The Little One was like a little papoose, but he was very old and knew very much.

Who acts: Little One, chief · What happens: be, know

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little One, chief), 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	3 One	det
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 One	amod
3	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 papoose	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 papoose	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 papoose	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 papoose	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 papoose	amod
8	papoose	papoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 old	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 papoose	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	16 knew	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 papoose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Little One	like a little papoose	tree rules
2	is	past	chief	old property	tree rules
3	know	past	chief not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 14