Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 20

The warrior, who had so bravely fought his way through bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees, gave the war cry like an eagle, then bounded back into the wilderness.

Who acts: warrior · What happens: have, fight, give, bound back · To what, where: way, bands, war cry, wilderness

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 (warrior), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 warrior	det
2	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 warrior	acl:relcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bravely	advmod
7	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
8	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fought	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 bands	case
12	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fought	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bands	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ways	cc
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ways	amod
17	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 men	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ways	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fought	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cry	det
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cry	compound
25	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 eagle	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bounded	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 bounded	advmod
31	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 gave	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 bounded	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 wilderness	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wilderness	det
35	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bounded	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the warrior				bravely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fight	past	the warrior	warrior's way	bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent
3	give	past		the war cry			like a eagle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
4	bound back	participle			the wilderness	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 20