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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 23

When it was night he slept in the trees; when it was day the hunter flew until he was hungry, then he stopped and found something to eat.

Who acts: tribe, hunter · What happens: be, sleep, fly, stop, find, eat · To what, where: night, trees, day, something

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 (tribe, hunter), 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

advmodnsubjcopobl:unmarkednsubjcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjcopobl:unmarkeddetnsubjconjmarknsubjcopadvclpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisccconjobjmarkaclpunctrootWhenADVitPRONwasAUXnightNOUNhePRONsleptVERBinADPtheDETtreesNOUN;PUNCTwhenADVitPRONwasAUXdayNOUNtheDEThunterNOUNflewVERBuntilSCONJhePRONwasAUXhungryADJ,PUNCTthenADVhePRONstoppedVERBandCCONJfoundVERBsomethingPRONtoPARTeatVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 nightadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 nightnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 nightcop
4nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing6 sleptobl:unmarked
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 sleptnsubj
6sleptsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7ininADP_9 treescase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 treesdet
9treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur6 sleptobl
10;;PUNCT_17 flewpunct
11whenwhenADVPronType=Int14 dayadvmod
12ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 daynsubj
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 daycop
14daydayNOUNNumber=Sing17 flewobl:unmarked
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 hunterdet
16hunterhunterNOUNNumber=Sing17 flewnsubj
17flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sleptconj
18untiluntilSCONJ_21 hungrymark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 hungrynsubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 hungrycop
21hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos17 flewadvcl
22,,PUNCT_25 stoppedpunct
23thenthenADVPronType=Dem25 stoppedadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 stoppednsubj
25stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sleptparataxis
26andandCCONJ_27 foundcc
27foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 stoppedconj
28somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind27 foundobj
29totoPART_30 eatmark
30eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf28 somethingacl
31..PUNCT_6 sleptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apasttribenighttree rules
2sleeppasthunterthe treesvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
3is apasttribedaytree rules
4flypastthe huntervn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5ispasthunterhungry propertytree rules
6stoppasthunterthenvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7findpasthunter not said heresomethingvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
8eatto-infinitivehunter not said heresomething not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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