Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 25

He would come to a lodge of our tribe, my grandfather said, and would look at the duck the squaw was roasting.

Who acts: Iagoo, grandfather, squaw · What happens: come, say, look, roast · To what, where: lodge, duck · 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, grandfather, squaw), 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	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 lodge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lodge	det
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tribe	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tribe	nmod:poss
9	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lodge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandfather	nmod:poss
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 duck	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 duck	det
20	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 squaw	det
22	squaw	squaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roasting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 roasting	aux
24	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 duck	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	would	Iagoo		a lodge of our tribe		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	my grandfather				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	would	Iagoo not said here			at the duck	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at duck=Theme
4	roast	past · progressive	the squaw	the duck not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent duck=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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 25