Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 8
He threw the old fox on the sled with the fish and pulled the big load towards his wigwam.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: throw, pull · To what, where: old fox, sled, big load, wigwam
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 (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 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sled | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sled | det |
| 8 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fish | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | cc |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 load | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 load | amod |
| 16 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 wigwam | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Indian | the old fox | the sled | with the fish | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fox=Theme on sled=Destination | ||
| 2 | pull | past | Indian not said here | the big load | Indian's wigwam | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme towards wigwam=Destination |
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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