Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 30
He had been gathering plants and insects in one of the desolate regions in the west.
Who acts: professor · What happens: gather, desolate · To what, where: plants, regions, west
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathering | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathering | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gathering | aux |
| 4 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathering | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 insects | cc |
| 7 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plants | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 gathering | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 desolate | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 desolate | det |
| 12 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 desolate | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 west | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 west | det |
| 16 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desolate | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect · progressive | professor | plants and insects | in one | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | |||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | regions | the west | tree rules |
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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