Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 10

He had tied six geese to his belt; they were strong, and the geese lifted the hunter out of the water and flew with him to the flock.

Who acts: geese · What happens: tie, be, lift, fly · To what, where: flock, hunter, water

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	aux
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 geese	nummod
5	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tied	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 belt	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 belt	nmod:poss
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 geese	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strong	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tied	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lifted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lifted	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 geese	det
16	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lifted	nsubj
17	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hunter	det
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 water	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lifted	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 flock	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flock	det
30	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past · perfect · passive		flock		six geese obj	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient goose=Result
2	is	past	geese = goose			strong property	tree rules
3	lift	past	the geese	the hunter	the water		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hunter=Theme out water=Destination
4	fly	past	the geese not said here			with flock; to the flock result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to flock=Result

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, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 10