Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 2

One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast as all other boys and men had done.

Who acts: One, boy, other boys · What happens: have, refuse, do · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, boy, other boys), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 warriors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 warriors	det
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 band	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 band	det
7	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 band	compound
8	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warriors	nmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 refused	nsubj
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
14	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 refused	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 done	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 boys	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boys	amod
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 done	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 men	cc
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 boys	conj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fast	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	One	a boy	the warriors in a Ojibway band nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	refuse	past	a boy		fast property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · perfect	all other boys and men			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 2