Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 48

She tore off the bill of one of the slain mosquitoes and used it to dig with, and she used it twelve moons.”

Who acts: club · What happens: tore off, use, dig · To what, where: bill

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 (club), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 bill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bill	det
5	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bill	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 mosquitoes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mosquitoes	det
10	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mosquitoes	compound
11	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 used	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 dig	mark
16	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	16 dig	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 used	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 used	nsubj
21	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 used	obj
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 moons	nummod
24	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 used	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tore off	past	club	the bill of one of the slain mosquitoes		tree rules
2	use	past	club not said here	bill		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	dig	to-infinitive	club not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	use	past	club	bill	twelve moons obj	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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 48