Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 4

When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing while the other six would dance around the mound.

Who acts: succotash, best singer, other six · What happens: be, sing, dance · To what, where: mound

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 (succotash, best singer, other six), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 succotash	det
3	succotash	succotash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sing	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sing	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 singer	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 singer	amod
11	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sing	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sing	aux
13	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	conj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 dance	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 six	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 six	amod
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 dance	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dance	aux
19	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sing	advcl
20	around	around	ADP	_	22 mound	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mound	det
22	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dance	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the succotash			all, gone property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	would	the best singer		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	would	the other six	the mound			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around mound=Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 4