Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 14
We have driven the deer to another forest, where they may live and be found by other hunters.
Who acts: We, deer, other hunters · What happens: drive, live, find · To what, where: deer, forest
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 (We, deer, other hunters), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 driven | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 driven | aux |
| 3 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driven | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driven | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 live | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forest | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 live | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 hunters | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hunters | amod |
| 19 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present · perfect | We | the deer | another forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme to forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | live | may | deer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | infinitive · passive | other hunters | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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