Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 134

He was very still, and he saw the great elks go by him on their trail to the far north.

Who acts: Iagoo, great elks · What happens: be, see, go · To what, where: trail · Speech: someone speaks here

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, great elks), 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	4 still	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 still	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elks	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 elks	amod
11	elks	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 trail	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 trail	nmod:poss
17	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 north	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 north	det
20	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 north	amod
21	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Iagoo		still property	tree rules
2	see	past	Iagoo			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	present	the great elks	elks's trail	by Iagoo; to the far north	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to north=Initial_Location

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, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 134