Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 40

It was like ten bears, but he was the only brave who dared to go out to see what the roaring was.

Who acts: roaring, Iagoo · What happens: be, dare, go out, see

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 (roaring, Iagoo), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bears	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bears	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bears	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bears	nummod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brave	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 brave	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brave	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brave	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brave	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brave	amod
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dared	nsubj
14	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brave	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dared	xcomp
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 see	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roaring	det
22	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	roaring	like ten bears	tree rules
2	is	past	Iagoo	brave property	tree rules
3	dare	past		who nsubj	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go out	to-infinitive		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	the roaring		tree rules

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 40