Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 3
His children wailed loudly, for they knew no one ever returned from that journey.
Who acts: children · What happens: wail, know, return · To what, where: one, journey
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 (children), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 children | nmod:poss |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wailed | nsubj |
| 3 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 wailed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wailed | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 returned | advmod |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wail | past | squaw's children | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | past | children = child | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | return | participle | no one not said here | that journey | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_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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