Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 27

He led them on a long trail, to the land of his Little People; he took them to his own chief.

Who acts: pukwudjinnie · What happens: lead, take · To what, where: hunters, long trail, own chief

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 (pukwudjinnie), 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 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 trail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trail	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trail	amod
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 land	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 People	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 People	nmod:poss
14	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 People	amod
15	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 land	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 chief	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chief	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chief	amod
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	pukwudjinnie	hunters = hunter		a long trail		to the land of pukwudjinnie's Little People	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on trail=Destination
2	take	past	pukwudjinnie	hunters = hunter		pukwudjinnie's own chief			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to chief=Destination

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 27