Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 9
After a time the younger boy grew weary and hid himself.
Who acts: younger boy · What happens: grow, hide · To what, where: boy
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 (younger boy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hid | cc |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hid | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the younger boy | time | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | past | the younger boy not said here | boy | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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