Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 7
They were hungry, but found nothing but acorns to eat.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: be, find, eat · To what, where: nothing
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 acorns | cc |
| 9 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hunters = hunter | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | hunters = hunter not said here | nothing acorns | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | hunters = hunter not said here | nothing acorns not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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