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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 19

Wahkandee thought that the black cloud at the edge of the earth would stop the race; when he reached the place of the black cloud, it was gone.

Who acts: Wahkandee, black cloud, cloud · What happens: think, stop, reach, be · To what, where: race, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wahkandee, black cloud, cloud), 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

nsubjmarkdetamodnsubjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodauxccompdetobjpunctmarknsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjcopconjpunctrootWahkandeePROPNthoughtVERBthatSCONJtheDETblackADJcloudNOUNatADPtheDETedgeNOUNofADPtheDETearthNOUNwouldAUXstopVERBtheDETraceNOUN;PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBtheDETplaceNOUNofADPtheDETblackADJcloudNOUN,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXgoneADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WahkandeeWahkandeePROPNNumber=Sing2 thoughtnsubj
2thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_14 stopmark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 clouddet
5blackblackADJDegree=Pos6 cloudamod
6cloudcloudNOUNNumber=Sing14 stopnsubj
7atatADP_9 edgecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 edgedet
9edgeedgeNOUNNumber=Sing6 cloudnmod
10ofofADP_12 earthcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 earthdet
12earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing9 edgenmod
13wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 stopaux
14stopstopVERBVerbForm=Inf2 thoughtccomp
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 racedet
16raceraceNOUNNumber=Sing14 stopobj
17;;PUNCT_20 reachedpunct
18whenwhenSCONJ_20 reachedmark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 reachednsubj
20reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 thoughtparataxis
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 placedet
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing20 reachedobj
23ofofADP_26 cloudcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 clouddet
25blackblackADJDegree=Pos26 cloudamod
26cloudcloudNOUNNumber=Sing22 placenmod
27,,PUNCT_30 gonepunct
28ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 gonensubj
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 gonecop
30gonegoneADJDegree=Pos20 reachedconj
31..PUNCT_2 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastWahkandeevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2stopwouldthe black cloud at the edge of the earththe racevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality race=Eventuality
3reachpastWahkandeethe place of the black cloudvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4ispastcloudgone propertytree 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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