Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 41

He saw mosquitoes flying in the tamarack trees in the swamp, but he could not tell the trees from the mosquitoes, they were both so big.

Who acts: Iagoo, mosquitoes · What happens: see, fly, not tell, be · To what, where: mosquitoes, tamarack trees, trees · 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, mosquitoes), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mosquitoes	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	tamarack	tamarack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flying	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 swamp	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swamp	det
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 mosquitoes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mosquitoes	det
22	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 big	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 big	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 big	cop
26	both	both	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Iagoo	mosquitoes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mosquito=Stimulus
2	fly	gerund	mosquitoes not said here		the tamarack trees in the swamp		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
3	not tell speech: assert	could	Iagoo	the trees		from the mosquitoes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient
4	is	past	mosquitoes = mosquito			big, both property	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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 41