Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 6
He saw some young saplings growing at the foot of a basswood tree.
Who acts: Indian, young saplings · What happens: see, grow · To what, where: young saplings, foot
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, young saplings), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 saplings | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saplings | amod |
| 5 | saplings | sapling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saplings | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foot | det |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | basswood | basswood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Indian | some young saplings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sapling=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | some young saplings not said here | the foot of a basswood tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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