Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 21

The wolf and her young ones played with the empty boxes when the meat was gone; they broke them all, then ran toward the oak tree.

Who acts: meat, wolf · What happens: play, be, break, run · To what, where: young ones, boxes, oak tree

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat, wolf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ones	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ones	nmod:poss
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wolf	conj
7	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ones	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 boxes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boxes	det
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boxes	amod
11	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 played	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meat	det
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 played	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 wolf	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 them	nmod:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 ran	advmod
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	conj
25	toward	toward	ADP	_	28 tree	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
27	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		wolf's young ones not said here			with the empty boxes	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with box=Theme
2	is	past	the meat				gone property	tree rules
3	break	past	the wolf and wolf's young ones	boxes = box				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
4	run	past	the wolf and wolf's young ones not said here		the oak tree	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward tree=Trajectory

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 21