Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 74
Iagoo went to the willow trees to take some of the little creeping-cats from them.
Who acts: Iagoo · What happens: go, take · To what, where: willow trees, some
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), 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 | Iagoo | Iagoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 5 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trees | compound |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cats | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cats | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cats | amod |
| 13 | creeping | creeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cats | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 creeping | punct |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cats | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iagoo | the willow trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Iagoo not said here | some of the little creeping cats from trees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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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