Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 18

Lame Buffalo sat with his wife White Deer and their children around the fire in the teepee.

Who acts: Lame Buffalo · What happens: sit · To what, where: fire

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 (Lame Buffalo), 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	Lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Buffalo	amod
2	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Deer	amod
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wife	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 children	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wife	conj
12	around	around	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 teepee	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 teepee	det
17	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Lame Buffalo			the fire		with Buffalo's wife and wife's children; in the teepee	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fire=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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 18