Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 32
The trail led westward, but the morning sun cast no long shadows of the wife and children.
Who acts: trail, morning sun · What happens: lead, cast, shadow · To what, where: long shadows, wife
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 (trail, morning sun), 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 trail | det |
| 2 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 cast | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sun | compound |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | nsubj |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 shadows | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shadows | amod |
| 13 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cast | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shadows | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 children | cc |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wife | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the trail | westward property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | cast | present | the morning sun | no long shadows of the wife and children | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product | ||||
| 3 | shadow | the wife and children | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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