Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 4
The little papoose was taken to the home of his mother’s sister.
What happens: take · To what, where: little papoose, home
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 papoose | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 papoose | amod |
| 3 | papoose | papoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 home | det |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the little papoose | the home of papoose's mother's sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to home=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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