Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 12

He sought out the wigwam of the girl with whom he had played when they were children.

Who acts: Keneu, men · What happens: seek out, play, be · To what, where: wigwam, children

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keneu, men), 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 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sought	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wigwam	det
5	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wigwam	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 girl	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 played	aux
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 whom	acl:relcl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 children	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 children	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 children	cop
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 played	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seek out	past	Keneu	the wigwam of the girl with the wigwam of the girl with the wigwam	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme
2	play	past · perfect	Keneu		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	men = man	children	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 12