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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 2

Two Indians from the Seneca Reservation went hunting; they went on a long trail, but at last found a place where the deer come to eat the salt that is in the sand; it is called a “salt lick.”

Who acts: Two Indians, Indians, deer, salt · What happens: go, hunt, find, come, eat, be · To what, where: Seneca Reservation, long trail, place, last, salt, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Two Indians, Indians, deer, salt), 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

nummodnsubjcasedetcompoundoblxcomppunctnsubjconjcasedetamodoblpunctcccaseoblconjdetobjadvmoddetnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompdetobjnsubjcopcasedetacl:relclpunctnsubj:passaux:passparataxisdetpunctcompoundxcomppunctpunctrootTwoNUMIndiansPROPNfromADPtheDETSenecaPROPNReservationNOUNwentVERBhuntingVERB;PUNCTtheyPRONwentVERBonADPaDETlongADJtrailNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJatADPlastADJfoundVERBaDETplaceNOUNwhereADVtheDETdeerNOUNcomeVERBtoPARTeatVERBtheDETsaltNOUNthatPRONisAUXinADPtheDETsandNOUN;PUNCTitPRONisAUXcalledVERBaDET“PUNCTsaltNOUNlickNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TwotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 Indiansnummod
2IndiansIndianPROPNNumber=Plur7 wentnsubj
3fromfromADP_6 Reservationcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Reservationdet
5SenecaSenecaPROPNNumber=Sing6 Reservationcompound
6ReservationreservationNOUNNumber=Sing7 wentobl
7wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8huntinghuntVERBVerbForm=Ger7 wentxcomp
9;;PUNCT_11 wentpunct
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 wentconj
12ononADP_15 trailcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 traildet
14longlongADJDegree=Pos15 trailamod
15trailtrailNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
16,,PUNCT_20 foundpunct
17butbutCCONJ_20 foundcc
18atatADP_19 lastcase
19lastlastADJDegree=Pos20 foundobl
20foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wentconj
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 placedet
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing20 foundobj
23wherewhereADVPronType=Rel26 comeadvmod
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 deerdet
25deerdeerNOUNNumber=Plur26 comensubj
26comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 placeacl:relcl
27totoPART_28 eatmark
28eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf26 comexcomp
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 saltdet
30saltsaltNOUNNumber=Sing28 eatobj
31thatthatPRONPronType=Rel35 sandnsubj
32isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 sandcop
33ininADP_35 sandcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 sanddet
35sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing30 saltacl:relcl
36;;PUNCT_39 calledpunct
37ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 callednsubj:pass
38isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 calledaux:pass
39calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 wentparataxis
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art43 lickdet
41“"PUNCT_43 lickpunct
42saltsaltNOUNNumber=Sing43 lickcompound
43licklickNOUNNumber=Sing39 calledxcomp
44..PUNCT_39 calledpunct
45”"PUNCT_7 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastTwo Indiansthe Seneca Reservationvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2huntgerundTwo Indians not said herevn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3gopastIndians = indiana long trailvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trail=Location
4findpastIndians = indian not said herea placelastvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at last=Asset
5comepresentthe deertree rules
6eatto-infinitivethe deer not said herethe saltvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
7ispresentthe saltthe sandtree rules
8callpresent · passivesalta salt lick xcompvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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