Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 16

He learned how to tan and use the buffalo skin; he learned the language of birds; they would come when he would call their names; he learned how to make and use the bow and arrow.

Who acts: man, bird · What happens: learn, tan, use, come, call, make · To what, where: buffalo skin, language, names, bow · Speech: someone speaks here

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, bird), 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 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tan	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tan	mark
5	tan	tan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tan	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skin	det
9	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	compound
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learned	nsubj
13	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 language	det
15	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learned	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 birds	case
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 language	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learned	conj
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 call	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 call	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 names	nmod:poss
27	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 learned	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 learned	nsubj
30	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	conj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 make	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 learned	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 use	cc
35	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 make	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bow	det
37	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 use	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 arrow	cc
39	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bow	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	past	man		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tan	to-infinitive	man not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	infinitive	man not said here	the buffalo skin	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	learn	past	man	the language of birds	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic
5	come	would	bird		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	would	man	bird's names	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
7	learn	past	man		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	make	to-infinitive	man not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	use	infinitive	man not said here	the bow and arrow	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient
10	name		bird		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 16