Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 24

He saw flowers around him; he knew he was far from the land of snow and ice.

Who acts: snow · What happens: see, know, be · To what, where: flowers, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flowers	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 land	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 land	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 land	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 snow	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ice	cc
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	snow	flowers		around peace	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	know	past	snow				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	snow		the land and ice	of snow; ice conj; far 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 24