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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 16

“She walked the Pathway of the Spirits alone one moon before Keneu came,” said her father; and the mother wailed a mourning cry from the place where she sat.

Who acts: Memainggwah, Keneu, father, mother · What happens: walk, come, say, wail · To what, where: Pathway, mourning cry, place · 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 (Memainggwah, Keneu, father, mother), 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

punctnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodadvmodnummodoblmarknsubjadvclpunctpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccdetnsubjconjdetcompoundobjcasedetobladvmodnsubjnmodroot“PUNCTShePRONwalkedVERBtheDETPathwayPROPNofADPtheDETSpiritsNOUNaloneADVoneNUMmoonNOUNbeforeSCONJKeneuPROPNcameVERB,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBherPRONfatherNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmotherNOUNwailedVERBaDETmourningNOUNcryNOUNfromADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVshePRONsat.PROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 walkedpunct
2SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 walkednsubj
3walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Pathwaydet
5PathwayPathwayPROPNNumber=Sing3 walkedobj
6ofofADP_8 Spiritscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Spiritsdet
8SpiritsspiritNOUNNumber=Plur5 Pathwaynmod
9alonealoneADV_3 walkedadvmod
10oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 moonnummod
11moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing3 walkedobl
12beforebeforeSCONJ_14 camemark
13KeneuKeneuPROPNNumber=Sing14 camensubj
14camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 saidadvcl
15,,PUNCT_14 camepunct
16”"PUNCT_14 camepunct
17saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 fathernmod:poss
19fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 saidobj
20;;PUNCT_24 wailedpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 wailedcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 motherdet
23mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing24 wailednsubj
24wailedwailVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 crydet
26mourningmourningNOUNNumber=Sing27 crycompound
27crycryNOUNNumber=Sing24 wailedobj
28fromfromADP_30 placecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 placedet
30placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 wailedobl
31wherewhereADVPronType=Rel33 sat.advmod
32sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 sat.nsubj
33sat.SaturdayPROPNAbbr=Yes Number=Sing30 placenmod

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walk in a quotepastMemainggwahthe Pathway of the Spiritsone moon obl; alone propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pathway=Agent
2come in a quotepastKeneuvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertpastMemainggwah's fathervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4wailpastthe mothera mourning crythe place sat. Memainggwahvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cry=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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