Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 15

The hunter with the bow never kills him; the hunter with the kettle never cooks his flesh; the hunter gathering sticks never builds the fire.

Who acts: hunter · What happens: not kill, not cook, gather, not build · To what, where: Bear, flesh, sticks, fire

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 (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	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kills	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bow	det
5	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunter	nmod
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 kills	advmod
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kills	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cooks	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cooks	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 kettle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kettle	det
14	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunter	nmod
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 cooks	advmod
16	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kills	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 flesh	nmod:poss
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cooks	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 builds	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hunter	det
21	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 builds	nsubj
22	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hunter	acl
23	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gathering	obj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 builds	advmod
25	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kills	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 builds	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kills	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not kill	present	the hunter with the bow	Bear	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not cook	present	the hunter with the kettle	Bear's flesh	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
3	gather	gerund	the hunter not said here	sticks	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	not build	present	the hunter	the fire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

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, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 15