Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 10
They did not miss the child, and he ran back to the wigwam, lay down, and fell asleep.
Who acts: voices, boy · What happens: not miss, run back, lay down, fall · To what, where: child, wigwam
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voices, boy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 miss | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 miss | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 miss | advmod |
| 4 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miss | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 miss | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wigwam | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wigwam | det |
| 14 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 miss | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | advcl |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not miss | past · do-support | voices = voice | the child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run back | past | boy | the wigwam | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | voices = voice not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | voices = voice not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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