Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 10
He found the nest of the manitou bird; there was one egg in the nest.
Who acts: man, one egg · What happens: find, be · To what, where: nest
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one egg), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nest | det |
| 4 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bird | compound |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 egg | nummod |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 nest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nest | det |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 egg | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | man | the nest of the manitou bird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | one egg in the nest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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