Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 5
The warrior hid his arrows and his bow, put on the new moccasins that lay by his wigwam door, and started.
Who acts: warrior, new moccasins · What happens: hide, put, lay, start · To what, where: arrows, new moccasins
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 (warrior, new moccasins), 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 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bow | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrows | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrows | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 moccasins | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moccasins | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moccasins | amod |
| 14 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 moccasins | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | compound |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 started | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 started | cc |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the warrior | warrior's arrows and warrior's bow | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | warrior's arrows and warrior's bow not said here | the new moccasins | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on moccasin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | the new moccasins | by warrior's wigwam door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by door=Destination | ||||
| 4 | start | past | the warrior not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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