Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 52

He grew very lonely, and after a time he found a wife who cared for his wigwam and cooked his food for four days, then she was gone; no one ever saw her again.

Who acts: father, wife, one · What happens: grow, find, care, cook, be, see · To what, where: wife, food

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 (father, wife, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 lonely	advmod
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cared	nsubj
15	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 wigwam	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wigwam	nmod:poss
18	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cared	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cooked	cc
20	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cooked	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 days	nummod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cooked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 gone	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	cop
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cooked	parataxis
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	nsubj
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 saw	advmod
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	obj
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 saw	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	father			lonely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	father	a wife	time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	care	past	a wife			for father's wigwam	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for wigwam=Theme
4	cook	past	father not said here	father's food	day		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	is	past	wife		then	gone property	tree rules
6	see	past	no one	wife	ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 52

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 52