Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 79

The sun was over his head when he began to make the trail.

Who acts: sun, Iagoo · What happens: be, begin, make · To what, where: head, trail

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 (sun, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 head	cop
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 began	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 head	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trail	det
13	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun		Iagoo's head	Iagoo nmod:poss	tree rules
2	begin	past	Iagoo				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive	Iagoo not said here	the trail			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trail=Product

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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 79