Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 15
The little people threw their cones into the canoe and hit Kwasind on the back of his head.
Who acts: little people · What happens: throw, hit · To what, where: cones, canoe, Kwasind
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little people), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cones | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 canoe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 canoe | det |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hit | cc |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 12 | Kwasind | Kwasind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the little people | people's cones | into the canoe result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer cone=Theme into canoe=Result | |||
| 2 | hit | past | the little people not said here | Kwasind | on the back of Marie's head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent kwasind=Instrument on back=Patient |
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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