Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 25

The Little One came back with a deerskin full of drink for them; he poured it into their mouths; it was not water; it was like no drink they ever had before.

Who acts: Little One, pukwudjinnie, drink, hunters · What happens: come back, pour, not be, be, have · To what, where: drink, mouths, water

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, pukwudjinnie, drink, hunters), 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	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 deerskin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deerskin	det
8	deerskin	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deerskin	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 drink	case
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drink	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 poured	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 poured	nsubj
16	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 poured	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 mouths	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouths	nmod:poss
20	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 poured	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 water	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 water	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 water	advmod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poured	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 drink	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drink	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drink	cop
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 drink	case
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 drink	det
31	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	parataxis
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 had	advmod
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drink	acl:relcl
35	before	before	ADV	_	34 had	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Little One				with a deerskin	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pour	past	pukwudjinnie	drink	hunters's mouths			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination
3	not is a	past	drink	water				tree rules
4	is	past	drink				like no drink	tree rules
5	have	past	hunters = hunter	no drink not said here		ever	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 25