Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 1

An Indian left his lodge for several days; when he came back, the dried deer meat which he had left hanging to a tree near his wigwam was gone.

Who acts: Indian, he, dried deer meat, wigwam · What happens: leave, come back, dry, hang, be · To what, where: lodge, dried deer meat

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, he, dried deer meat, wigwam), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Indian	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 lodge	nmod:poss
5	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 meat	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meat	det
16	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 meat	amod
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meat	compound
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	conj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 left	nsubj:pass
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 meat	acl:relcl
23	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 left	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hanging	obl
27	near	near	ADP	_	31 gone	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wigwam	nmod:poss
29	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gone	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gone	cop
31	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hanging	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a Indian	his lodge	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme
2	come back	past	he			the dried deer meat conj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	leave	past · perfect · passive		the dried deer meat		he nsubj	tree rules
5	hang	gerund	the dried deer meat not said here			to a tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	his wigwam			gone property	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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 1