Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 17
He came to a place where there were many deer, and he had much meat and many deerskins.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: come, have · To what, where: place, much meat
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), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 were | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deer | amod |
| 10 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 were | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meat | amod |
| 16 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deerskins | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deerskins | amod |
| 19 | deerskins | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meat | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Indian | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Indian | much meat and many deerskins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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