Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 24
The other the chiefs buried where he fell as he slid from Leaping Rock.
Who acts: other chiefs, arrow · What happens: bury, fall, slide · To what, where: Leaping Rock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other chiefs, arrow), 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 | 4 chiefs | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buried | nsubj |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 fell | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buried | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 slid | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slid | nsubj |
| 11 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Rock | case |
| 13 | Leaping | Leaping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rock | compound |
| 14 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | the other chiefs | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | arrow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slide | past | arrow | Leaping Rock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory |
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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