Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 6

All tribes had much food, for there were many deer, elk, and buffalo, and the rivers were full of fish.

Who acts: tribes, many deer, rivers · What happens: have, be · To what, where: much food

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribes, many deer, rivers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tribes	det
2	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deer	amod
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 elk	punct
13	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 deer	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 buffalo	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 buffalo	cc
16	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deer	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 full	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rivers	det
20	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 full	cop
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 fish	case
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	all tribes	much food			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	be	past	many deer and elk and buffalo		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the rivers			of fish; full 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, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 6