Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 12
The first hunter shoots at the bear in the Moon of Falling Leaves.
Who acts: first hunter · What happens: shoot, fall · To what, where: bear
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first hunter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 hunter | amod |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoots | nsubj |
| 4 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bear | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoots | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bear | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Leaves | case |
| 12 | Falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Leaves | amod |
| 13 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Moon | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | the first hunter | the bear in the Moon of Falling Leaves | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bear=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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