Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 119
He lay on his back and shot straight into the flock of ducks.
Who acts: Iagoo · What happens: lie, shoot · To what, where: back, flock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iagoo), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shot | cc |
| 7 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 flock | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 flock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flock | det |
| 11 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shot | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ducks | case |
| 13 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flock | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Iagoo | Iagoo's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | Iagoo not said here | the flock of ducks | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
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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