Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 57
The deer lose their long antlers about this time, and the Indians can find them in the forests where the deer trails are.
Who acts: deer, Indians, deer trails · What happens: lose, find, be · To what, where: long antlers, antlers, forests
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, Indians, deer trails), 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 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 antlers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 antlers | amod |
| 6 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indians | det |
| 13 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lose | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forests | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forests | det |
| 19 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 forests | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deer | det |
| 22 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trails | compound |
| 23 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 where | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 where | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | the deer | Horns's long antlers | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | find | can | the Indians | antlers = antler | the forests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | deer trails | where 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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