Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 6

He laid himself down by the sled-road and made the Indian believe that he was dead.

Who acts: fox, Indian · What happens: lay down, make, believe, be · To what, where: fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, 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 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laid	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 laid	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
7	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sled	punct
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Indian	det
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 believe	nsubj
14	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dead	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 believe	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	fox	fox	by the sled road	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by road=Destination
2	make	past	fox not said here			tree rules
3	believe	present	the Indian			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	fox		dead property	tree rules

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, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 6