Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 6
The hunters went on carrying great rolls of deerskin, which were very heavy.
Who acts: hunters, great rolls · What happens: go, carry, be, roll · To what, where: great rolls, deerskin
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 (hunters, great rolls), 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 | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 carrying | mark |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rolls | amod |
| 7 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carrying | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 deerskin | case |
| 9 | deerskin | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rolls | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heavy | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heavy | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heavy | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 heavy | advmod |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rolls | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the hunters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the hunters not said here | great rolls of deerskin | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | great rolls of deerskin | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roll | deerskin | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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