Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 5
The boy did as his father commanded, for when the time came he went into the secret lodge in the deep forest and laid himself down alone on the mat his mother had woven for him.
Who acts: boy, father, time, mat · What happens: do, command, come, go, lay down, weave · To what, where: secret lodge, boy, mat, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, father, time, mat), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 commanded | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | nsubj |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commanded | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 lodge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lodge | det |
| 18 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lodge | amod |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forest | amod |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laid | cc |
| 25 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 laid | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 laid | compound:prt |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 laid | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 mat | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mat | det |
| 31 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | obl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 woven | aux |
| 35 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 mat | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 woven | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | command | past | boy's father | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | boy | the secret lodge | in the deep forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | lay down | past | boy not said here | boy | the mat | alone property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on mat=Destination | ||
| 6 | weave | past · perfect · passive | the mat not said here | boy's mother | for boy | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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