Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 42
The watchman opened the gate and, taking the brave by the hand, led him past the two great rocks that held the wonderful gate.
Who acts: watchman, two great rocks · What happens: open, take, lead, hold · To what, where: gate, brave, watchman, two great rocks, wonderful gate
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 (watchman, two great rocks), 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 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taking | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 opened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brave | det |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 taking | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | past | past | ADP | _ | 21 rocks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rocks | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rocks | nummod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rocks | amod |
| 21 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 led | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gate | det |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gate | amod |
| 26 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the watchman | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the watchman not said here | the brave | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the watchman not said here | watchman | the two great rocks | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme past rock=Destination | |||
| 4 | hold | past | the two great rocks | the wonderful gate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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