Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 11
One of the hunters hit the rock with a stick, and a little man appeared.
Who acts: One, little man · What happens: hit, appear · To what, where: rock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, little 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hunters | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunters | det |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stick | det |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | One | the rock | with a stick; the hunters nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with stick=Instrument | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a little man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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