Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 44

She waited for him halfway on the Bridge of Souls, made by the stars which are a white pathway to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

Who acts: Memainggwah, stars · What happens: wait, make, be · To what, where: Bridge, white pathway

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, stars), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	obl
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	2 waited	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bridge	det
8	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Souls	case
10	Souls	Soul	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Bridge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 waited	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stars	det
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pathway	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pathway	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pathway	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pathway	amod
20	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stars	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 Grounds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Grounds	det
23	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Grounds	amod
24	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Grounds	compound
25	Grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 pathway	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Memainggwah		the Bridge of Souls	for Keneu; halfway property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Location
2	make	participle	Memainggwah not said here			by the stars	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is a	present	the stars	a white pathway		to the Happy Hunting Grounds	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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 44