Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 38
After that feast he wanted to walk many times with the sun to the place where the sky was broken, and every time he asked for meat.
Who acts: chief · What happens: want, walk, break, ask · To what, where: sky
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 (chief), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 broken | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 broken | aux:pass |
| 20 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asked | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | nsubj |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanted | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 meat | case |
| 28 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | chief | after that feast | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | chief not said here | time | with the sun; to the place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | |||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the sky | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | chief | time | for meat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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