Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 89

White Deer put on more sticks and blew the fire with her breath; when it began to blaze Lame Buffalo went on with more stories of Iagoo.

Who acts: White Deer, fire, Lame · What happens: put, blow, begin, blaze, go on · To what, where: more sticks, fire

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 (White Deer, fire, Lame), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Deer	amod
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sticks	amod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 breath	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 breath	nmod:poss
13	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 began	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 blaze	mark
19	blaze	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	Lame	Lame	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
21	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Lame	flat
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 blaze	ccomp
23	on	on	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 stories	case
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 stories	amod
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Iagoo	case
28	Iagoo	Iagoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 stories	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	White Deer		more sticks		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on stick=Destination
2	blow	past	White Deer not said here	the fire		with Deer's breath	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
3	begin	past	fire				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	blaze	to-infinitive	fire not said here				tree rules
5	go on	past	Lame			with more stories of Iagoo	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 89