Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 28
The next morning the father went with the earliest morning light to the little lodge in the forest.
Who acts: father · What happens: go · To what, where: little lodge
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), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 9 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 light | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | compound |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lodge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lodge | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lodge | amod |
| 15 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lodge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the father | the little lodge in the forest | morning | with the earliest morning light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=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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