Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 4

Just then he came to a lake on which many wild geese were swimming, and he wanted some meat.

Who acts: Indian, many wild geese · What happens: come, swim, want · To what, where: lake, 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, many wild geese), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 swimming	obl
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 geese	amod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 geese	amod
12	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swimming	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swimming	aux
14	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lake	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wanted	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 meat	det
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanted	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	Indian		a lake	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	swim	past · progressive	many wild geese		a lake		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory
3	want	past	Indian	some meat			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 4