Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 32
A marauding band of Indians caught sight of him.
Who acts: marauding band · What happens: maraud, catch, sight · To what, where: sight, professor
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 (marauding band), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 band | det |
| 2 | marauding | maraud | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 band | amod |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Indians | case |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 band | nmod |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maraud | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | catch | past | a marauding band of Indians | sight of professor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | professor | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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