Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 142
No other brave in his tribe had ever brought home an elk with such horns.
What happens: bring · To what, where: tribe
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 brave | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | amod |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 brought | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 brought | advmod |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brave | advcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 elk | det |
| 12 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horns | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horns | amod |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 elk | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Iagoo's tribe | ever | a elk obj; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination elk=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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