Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 7
He tore off long strips of bark from these and then dived into the lake under the geese where he saw hundreds of their feet.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: tore off, dive, see · To what, where: long strips, lake, hundreds
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), 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 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 tore | compound:prt |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strips | amod |
| 5 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bark | case |
| 7 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strips | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 these | case |
| 9 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 bark | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dived | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dived | advmod |
| 12 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tore | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dived | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 geese | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 geese | det |
| 18 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dived | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 geese | acl:relcl |
| 22 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hundreds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore off | past | Indian | long strips of bark from these | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | Indian not said here | the lake | then | under the geese | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lake=Location | ||
| 3 | see | past | Indian | hundreds of geese's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus |
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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