Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 11

Each day for ten days the father came to the little lodge in the wilderness and asked his son if the strong manitou had come to him.

Who acts: father, strong manitou · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: little lodge, son, father

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, strong manitou), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 day	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 lodge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lodge	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lodge	amod
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wilderness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wilderness	det
15	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lodge	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	iobj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 manitou	det
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 manitou	amod
23	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 asked	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the father		the little lodge in the wilderness	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the father not said here	father's son			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the strong manitou	father			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 11