Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 12
He was miles away, but he flew with a great rock in his claws and killed the serpent.
Who acts: Manitou · What happens: be, fly, kill · To what, where: claws, serpent
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 (Manitou), 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 | 4 away | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 away | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rock | amod |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 claws | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 claws | nmod:poss |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 serpent | det |
| 19 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Manitou | miles obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Manitou | Manitou's claws | with a great rock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in claw=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | past | Manitou not said here | the serpent | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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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