Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 8

Henry R. Schoolcraft, an American geologist, was much among the red men, from eastern New York to the source of the Mississippi, which he discovered.

Who acts: Henry · What happens: be, discover · To what, where: eastern New York

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 (Henry), 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	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 men	nsubj
2	R.	R.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	flat
3	Schoolcraft	Schoolcraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 geologist	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 geologist	det
6	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geologist	amod
7	geologist	geologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Henry	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 men	cop
10	much	much	ADV	_	14 men	advmod
11	among	among	ADP	_	14 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 York	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 York	case
17	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 York	amod
18	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 York	flat
19	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 men	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 source	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 source	det
22	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 York	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Mississippi	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Mississippi	det
25	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 source	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 discovered	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 discovered	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 discovered	nsubj
29	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 York	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Henry					among the red men and eastern New York to the source of the Mississippi; eastern New York to the source of the Mississippi conj	tree rules
2	discover	past	Henry	eastern New York to the source of the Mississippi					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 8