Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 15
The Indian men came and found him; they got him out and gave him food.
Who acts: Indian men, men · What happens: come, find, get out, give · To what, where: Indian, food
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 (Indian men, men), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Indian men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the Indian men not said here | Indian | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get out | past | men = man | Indian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | men = man not said here | food | Indian | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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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