Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 25
They called a great council, and the hunter told his story; then he burned his wings.
Who acts: geese, hunter · What happens: call, tell, burn · To what, where: great council, story, wings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (geese, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 council | amod |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hunter | det |
| 9 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 burned | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 burned | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burned | nsubj |
| 16 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burned | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | geese = goose | a great council | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the hunter | hunter's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | burn | past | hunter | hunter's wings | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=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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