Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 17

There was a fire of sticks in the middle of the teepee, but the smoke was not bad; it went out of the teepee by the top of the poles.

Who acts: fire, smoke · What happens: be, not be, go out, fire · To what, where: teepee, sticks

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 (fire, smoke), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fire	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 teepee	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teepee	det
12	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bad	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smoke	det
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bad	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bad	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bad	advmod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 teepee	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 teepee	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 teepee	det
26	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 poles	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 poles	det
32	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 top	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fire of sticks in the middle of the teepee		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	the smoke			bad property	tree rules
3	go out	past	smoke	the teepee		by the top of the poles	tree rules
4	fire			sticks in the middle of the teepee			nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 17