Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 5

There was more meat than the wolves could eat, but the hunters shot many deer every day, until no more came.

Who acts: more meat, wolves, hunters, more · What happens: be, eat, shoot, come · To what, where: more meat, many deer

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 (more meat, wolves, hunters, more), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 meat	amod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 eat	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolves	det
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meat	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shot	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 shot	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunters	det
13	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shot	nsubj
14	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deer	amod
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shot	obj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shot	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shot	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	more meat		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	could	the wolves	more meat not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	shoot	past	the hunters	many deer		day	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
4	come	past	more				vn escape-51.1-1 «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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 5