Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 11

He cut three geese loose; the other three broke the strings which tied them.

Who acts: flock, other three, strings · What happens: cut, break, tie · To what, where: three geese, strings, geese

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 (flock, other three, strings), 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	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 geese	nummod
4	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cut	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 three	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 three	amod
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 strings	det
12	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broke	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tied	nsubj
14	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strings	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tied	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	past	flock	three geese	loose property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Product
2	break	past	the other three	the strings		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Patient
3	tie	past	the strings	geese = goose		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 11