Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 35

He told great stories of battles, but no one ever saw him when he was fighting.

Who acts: Iagoo, one · What happens: tell, see, fight · To what, where: great stories, Iagoo · 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, one), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 battles	case
6	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stories	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 saw	advmod
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 fighting	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fighting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fighting	aux
17	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Iagoo	great stories of battles		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	see	past	no one	Iagoo	ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	fight	past · progressive	Iagoo			vn battle-36.4-1 «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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 35