Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 43

They called to him in the cave; he answered them; they were happy together.

Who acts: brother, Lodge · What happens: call, answer, be · To what, where: Lodge, cave, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Lodge), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 happy	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happy	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happy	cop
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	parataxis
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 happy	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	brother	Lodge	the cave		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past	Lodge	brother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	is	past	brother			happy, together property	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, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 43