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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 14

Keneu told his story and all believed him, and he asked for the maiden; he had thought of her welcome when he should come to his home.

Who acts: Keneu, girl · What happens: tell, believe, ask, think, come, welcome · To what, where: story, Keneu, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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, girl), 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

nsubjnmod:possobjccadvmodconjobjpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjauxconjcasenmod:possobladvmodnsubjauxccompcasenmod:possoblpunctrootKeneuPROPNtoldVERBhisPRONstoryNOUNandCCONJallDETbelievedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONaskedVERBforADPtheDETmaidenNOUN;PUNCThePRONhadAUXthoughtVERBofADPherPRONwelcomeNOUNwhenADVhePRONshouldAUXcomeVERBtoADPhisPRONhomeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KeneuKeneuPROPNNumber=Sing2 toldnsubj
2toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 storynmod:poss
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing2 toldobj
5andandCCONJ_7 believedcc
6allallDETPronType=Tot7 believedadvmod
7believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldconj
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 believedobj
9,,PUNCT_12 askedpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 askedcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 askednsubj
12askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldconj
13forforADP_15 maidencase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 maidendet
15maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing12 askedobl
16;;PUNCT_19 thoughtpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 thoughtnsubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 thoughtaux
19thoughtthinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 toldconj
20ofofADP_22 welcomecase
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 welcomenmod:poss
22welcomewelcomeNOUNNumber=Sing19 thoughtobl
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int26 comeadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 comensubj
25shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 comeaux
26comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf19 thoughtccomp
27totoADP_29 homecase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 homenmod:poss
29homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing26 comeobl
30..PUNCT_2 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastKeneuKeneu's storyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2believepastKeneu not said hereKeneuvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3ask speech: askpastKeneufor the maidenvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4think speech: otherpast · perfectKeneuof girl's welcomevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5comeshouldKeneuKeneu's homevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
6welcomegirlnom welcome «state transitive»: poss=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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