Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 7

The white friend may be a hunter, and then his Indian guide will tell in his own way stories connected with objects seen by them in the forest, on the plain, or on the mountain.

Who acts: white friend, Indian guide · What happens: be, tell, connect, see · To what, where: hunter, way stories, objects, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white friend, Indian guide), 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 friend	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunter	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hunter	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hunter	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hunter	det
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 tell	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 guide	nmod:poss
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guide	amod
13	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hunter	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 stories	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stories	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stories	compound
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obl
21	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stories	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 objects	case
23	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 connected	obl
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 objects	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plain	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 plain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plain	det
33	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mountain	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 mountain	cc
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 mountain	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mountain	det
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plain	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hunter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	the white friend	a hunter				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	friend's Indian guide		friend's way stories	then	the plain or the mountain parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	connect	participle		friend's way stories not said here			with objects	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with object=Co-Patient
4	see	participle		objects not said here	the forest		by stories = story	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 7