Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 5

He could carry two buffaloes in his claws; he always ate them near his nest; this is why the rocks are red.

Who acts: Manitou, this, rocks · What happens: carry, eat, be · To what, where: two buffaloes, claws, buffaloes, 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 (Manitou, this, rocks), 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	3 carry	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 buffaloes	nummod
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 claws	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 claws	nmod:poss
8	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 ate	advmod
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nest	nmod:poss
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 why	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 why	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 carry	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rocks	det
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 red	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 red	cop
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 why	advcl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	could	Manitou	two buffaloes	Manitou's claws		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buffalo=Value in claw=Location
2	eat	past	Manitou	buffaloes = buffalo	Manitou's nest	always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	present	this			why property	tree rules
4	is	present	the rocks			red property	tree rules

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 5