Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 33

Wheeling their ponies in his direction, they were down upon him before he had time to do anything more than gather his collection into the boxes and get upon his pony.

Who acts: Indians, professor · What happens: wheel, be, have, do, gather, get · To what, where: ponies, direction, anything, collection

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 (Indians, 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	Wheeling	wheel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ponies	nmod:poss
3	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wheeling	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 direction	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 direction	nmod:poss
6	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wheeling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 down	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 down	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 down	cop
10	down	down	ADV	_	1 Wheeling	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 down	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wheeling	advcl
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 do	obj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 anything	amod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 gather	mark
22	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 more	acl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 collection	nmod:poss
24	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gather	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 boxes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boxes	det
27	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gather	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 get	cc
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 gather	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 pony	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pony	nmod:poss
32	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wheeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wheel	gerund		Indians's ponies	professor's direction			vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=Theme
2	is	past	Indians = indian				upon professor; down property	tree rules
3	have	past	professor			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	do	to-infinitive	professor not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
5	gather	infinitive		professor's collection			into the boxes	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent collection=Patient into box=Co-Patient
6	get	infinitive					upon professor's pony	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 33

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 33