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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

detnsubjmarknmod:possnsubjadvclpunctmarkmarkdetnsubjconjnsubjconjcasedetamodoblcasedetamodoblccconjobjcompound:prtadvmodcasedetoblnmod:possnsubj:passauxacl:relclcaseoblpunctrootTheDETboyNOUNdidVERBasSCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNcommandedVERB,PUNCTforSCONJwhenSCONJtheDETtimeNOUNcameVERBhePRONwentVERBintoADPtheDETsecretADJlodgeNOUNinADPtheDETdeepADJforestNOUNandCCONJlaidVERBhimselfPRONdownADPaloneADVonADPtheDETmatNOUNhisPRONmotherNOUNhadAUXwovenVERBforADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 boydet
2boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing3 didnsubj
3diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4asasSCONJ_7 commandedmark
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 fathernmod:poss
6fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing7 commandednsubj
7commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 didadvcl
8,,PUNCT_13 camepunct
9forforSCONJ_13 camemark
10whenwhenSCONJ_13 camemark
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 timedet
12timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing13 camensubj
13camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 commandedconj
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 wentnsubj
15wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 cameconj
16intointoADP_19 lodgecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 lodgedet
18secretsecretADJDegree=Pos19 lodgeamod
19lodgelodgeNOUNNumber=Sing15 wentobl
20ininADP_23 forestcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 forestdet
22deepdeepADJDegree=Pos23 forestamod
23forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing15 wentobl
24andandCCONJ_25 laidcc
25laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 wentconj
26himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes25 laidobj
27downdownADP_25 laidcompound:prt
28alonealoneADV_25 laidadvmod
29ononADP_31 matcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 matdet
31matmatNOUNNumber=Sing25 laidobl
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 mothernmod:poss
33mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing35 wovennsubj:pass
34hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 wovenaux
35wovenweaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 matacl:relcl
36forforADP_37 himcase
37himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 wovenobl
38..PUNCT_3 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe boyvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2commandpastboy's fathervn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3comepastthe timevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4gopastboythe secret lodgein the deep forestvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location
5lay downpastboy not said hereboythe matalone propertyvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on mat=Destination
6weavepast · perfect · passivethe mat not said hereboy's motherfor boyvn 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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