Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 31
Now in the dark night his dog pressed his head against him to comfort him.
Who acts: dog · What happens: press, comfort · To what, where: head, warrior
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 (dog), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dog | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | nsubj |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pressed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 comfort | mark |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pressed | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 comfort | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | warrior's dog | warrior's head | now; night | against warrior | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 2 | comfort | to-infinitive | warrior's dog not said here | warrior | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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