Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 19

He made wings of the deerskins; he learned how to fly with the wings, for the birds taught him.

Who acts: hunter, birds · What happens: make, learn, fly, teach · To what, where: wings, hunter

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 (hunter, birds), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deerskins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deerskins	det
6	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wings	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 learned	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learned	nsubj
9	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fly	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learned	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wings	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wings	det
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fly	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taught	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 taught	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 taught	nsubj
20	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 learned	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taught	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	hunter	wings of the deerskins			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Product
2	learn	past	hunter				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	to-infinitive	hunter not said here			with the wings	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	teach speech: other	past	the birds		hunter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 19