Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 11

The boys had eaten nothing all day, but they took their empty bowls and had a mock feast.

Who acts: boys · What happens: eat, take, have · To what, where: boys, empty bowls, mock feast

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 eaten	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bowls	nmod:poss
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bowls	amod
14	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 feast	det
18	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feast	compound
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive		the boys	day	nothing obj	tree rules
2	take	past	boys = boy	boys's empty bowls			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
3	have	past	boys = boy not said here	a mock feast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient

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, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 11