Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 4
He fed on the wild buffaloes that lived on the prairies.
Who acts: Manitou, wild buffaloes · What happens: feed, live · To what, where: prairies
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, wild buffaloes), 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 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 buffaloes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buffaloes | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buffaloes | amod |
| 6 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 buffaloes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 prairies | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prairies | det |
| 11 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | Manitou | on the wild buffaloes | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on buffalo=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the wild buffaloes | the prairies | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Location |
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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