Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 7
He and his dog were on the trail going south.”
Who acts: Indian, trail · What happens: be, go · To what, where: trail
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, trail), 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 | 8 trail | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dog | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trail | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trail | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trail | det |
| 8 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 trail | acl |
| 10 | south | south | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trail | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 trail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Indian | the trail | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the trail not said here | south property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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