Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 11
How the Bear lost his Tail 112 XIII.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: lose · To what, where: Tail
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lost | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bear | det |
| 3 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | 112 | 112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 XIII | compound |
| 8 | XIII | XIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 lost | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the Bear | Bear's Tail | 112 XIII obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality |
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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