Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 30
The pony must search for his own food in summer or winter.
Who acts: pony · What happens: search
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pony), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pony | det |
| 2 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 search | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 search | aux |
| 4 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 food | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 search | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 summer | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 winter | cc |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | must | the pony | for pony's own food in summer or winter | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=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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