Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 38
The brother turned to go back to the wigwam of his father, the good manitou.
Who acts: brother · What happens: turn, go back
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wigwam | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wigwam | det |
| 9 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wigwam | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 manitou | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manitou | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manitou | amod |
| 16 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | the brother not said here | to the wigwam of Lodge's father result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wigwam=Result |
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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