Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 8

First, a daub of yellow with red at the edge; then red on the yellow, and yellow on the red, until his eye was satisfied.

Who acts: eye · What happens: be · To what, where: daub

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 (eye), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 daub	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 daub	det
4	daub	daub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 yellow	case
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daub	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 red	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yellow	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 red	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 red	advmod
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daub	appos
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 yellow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yellow	det
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yellow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 yellow	cc
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 red	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 red	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yellow	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 satisfied	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 satisfied	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eye	nmod:poss
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 satisfied	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 satisfied	cop
29	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 daub	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daub's eye					satisfied 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 At Home, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 8