Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 42

She took him back to his bed of moss, and when he awoke this time he found his father standing by him.

Who acts: maiden, bird · What happens: take back, awake, find, stand · To what, where: bird, father

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 (maiden, bird), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 moss	case
9	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 awoke	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 awoke	nsubj
14	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	advcl
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awoke	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obj
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 found	advcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 standing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	maiden		bird		to bird's bed of moss	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	awake	past	bird			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	bird	bird's father				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
4	stand	gerund	bird not said here				by bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 42