Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 26

They became very strong and wanted nothing more to eat or to drink for more than one moon.

Who acts: hunters · What happens: become, want, eat, drink · To what, where: nothing

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 wanted	obj
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nothing	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drink	mark
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 moon	case
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	17 one	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 more	fixed
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 moon	nummod
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drink	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	hunters = hunter		strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	want	past	hunters = hunter not said here	nothing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	hunters = hunter not said here	nothing not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	to-infinitive	hunters = hunter not said here		for one moon	vn eat-39.1-1 «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, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 26