Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 53

It went through the land of the river where the buffaloes feed when it is wet.

Who acts: trail, buffaloes · What happens: go, feed, be · To what, where: land

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 (trail, buffaloes), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 feed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 buffaloes	det
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	nsubj
12	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 river	acl:relcl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 wet	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wet	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wet	cop
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feed	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	trail	the land of the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial_Location
2	feed	present	the buffaloes			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	trail		wet 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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 53