Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 10

It was good meat, but it was hard work to hunt, and many days there were neither elk nor deer in sight.

Who acts: forest, many days · What happens: be, hunt, elk · To what, where: good meat, hard work, sight

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, many days), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 meat	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meat	amod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 work	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 work	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 work	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hunt	mark
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 work	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 elk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 elk	cc
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 elk	nsubj
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 days	acl:relcl
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 elk	cc:preconj
20	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meat	conj
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 deer	cc
22	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 elk	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 sight	case
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 elk	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	forest	good meat and elk nor deer			tree rules
2	is a	past	forest	hard work			tree rules
3	hunt	to-infinitive	forest not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	elk		many days		sight	deer conj	tree rules

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, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 10

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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 10