Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 54
When he awoke he was floating through the air, and the sun chief called to him to stop at his teepee.
Who acts: father · What happens: awake, float, call, stop · To what, where: sun chief, air, father, teepee · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 floating | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 floating | aux |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 awoke | ccomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floating | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chief | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chief | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | compound |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chief | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stop | mark |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 called | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 teepee | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 22 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stop | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | father | the sun chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | past · progressive | father | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the sun chief not said here | father | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | father's teepee | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at teepee=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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