Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 6
They went to the prairies and tasted the buffalo meat.
Who acts: cranes · What happens: go, taste · To what, where: prairies, buffalo meat
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 (cranes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 prairies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prairies | det |
| 5 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tasted | cc |
| 7 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meat | det |
| 9 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meat | compound |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tasted | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cranes = crane | the prairies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prairie=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | taste | past | cranes = crane not said here | the buffalo meat | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme meat=Attribute |
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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