Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 18
He found the trail and soon came upon a herd of deer feeding in the bush.
Who acts: chief, deer · What happens: find, come, feed · To what, where: trail, herd, bush
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, deer), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trail | det |
| 4 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 herd | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 herd | det |
| 10 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 deer | case |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 herd | nmod |
| 13 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 deer | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feeding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | chief | the trail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | chief not said here | a herd of deer | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon herd=Location | |||
| 3 | feed | gerund | deer not said here | the bush | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
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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