Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 15

The man learned how to hunt the buffalo, for he could see many miles.

Who acts: man · What happens: learn, hunt, see · To what, where: buffalo, many miles

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hunt	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hunt	mark
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learned	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buffalo	det
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hunt	conj
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 miles	amod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	past	the man		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the buffalo	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
3	see	could	man	many miles	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus

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, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 15