Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 145

There are more stories of Iagoo, the great story-teller, but Lame Buffalo did not tell any more.

Who acts: more stories, Lame · What happens: be, not tell · 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 (more stories, Lame), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Iagoo	case
6	Iagoo	Iagoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stories	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teller	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teller	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teller	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teller	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct
12	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Iagoo	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
15	Lame	Lame	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tell	nsubj
16	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lame	flat
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 tell	advmod
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	parataxis
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 tell	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	more stories of Iagoo			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Lame						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 145