Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 9
An untrained white hunter would not have seen one sign of the lost Indian.
What happens: not see, lose · To what, where: untrained white hunter
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 4 hunter | det |
| 2 | untrained | untrained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunter | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunter | amod |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sign | nummod |
| 10 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Indian | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indian | det |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Indian | amod |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sign | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | would · perfect · passive | a untrained white hunter | one sign of the lost Indian obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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