Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 13

When Keneu stood at the doorway of her father’s lodge, her father met him and gave him food.

Who acts: Keneu, father · What happens: stand, meet, give · To what, where: doorway, Keneu, food

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, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 stood	advmod
2	Keneu	Keneu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 doorway	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doorway	det
6	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 lodge	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lodge	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doorway	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	Keneu			the doorway of girl's father's lodge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at doorway=Location
2	meet	past	girl's father	Keneu			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	give	past	girl's father not said here	food	Keneu		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

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, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 13