Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 33
The wild swan, geese, and ducks also feed upon it, and they make good hunting.
Who acts: ducks · What happens: feed, make · To what, where: good hunting, wild swan
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks), 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 | 3 swan | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swan | amod |
| 3 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 geese | punct |
| 5 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swan | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feed | cc |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feed | nsubj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 feed | advmod |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swan | parataxis |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feed | conj |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hunting | amod |
| 18 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | ducks | upon rice | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | ducks = duck | good hunting | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hunting=Product |
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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