Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 27
Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds 164 XXIX.
What happens: trap · To what, where: Happy Hunting Grounds
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: 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 | Trapping | trap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Grounds | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Grounds | det |
| 4 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Grounds | amod |
| 5 | Hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Grounds | compound |
| 6 | Grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Trapping | obj |
| 7 | 164 | 164 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Grounds | list |
| 8 | XXIX | XXIX | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 164 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trapping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | gerund | the Happy Hunting Grounds | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Patient |
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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