Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 5
Seven braves were chasing a bear, which ran from the woods to a mountain.
Who acts: Seven braves, chasing bear · What happens: chase, be, run · To what, where: chasing bear, woods
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 (Seven braves, chasing bear), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 braves | nummod |
| 2 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bear | cop |
| 4 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bear | amod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bear | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 woods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woods | det |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | gerund | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Seven braves | a chasing bear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a chasing bear | the woods | to a mountain result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result |
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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