Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 38
Tired, sick, and nearly fainting with weariness, the Indian kept on his way.
What happens: faint, keep
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: 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 | Tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tired | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fainting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fainting | cc |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 fainting | advmod |
| 7 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Tired | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 weariness | case |
| 9 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fainting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 way | amod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weariness | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | gerund | with weariness on west's Indian kept way; nearly property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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