Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 19

The hunters shot two deer and ate much meat; they were stronger after they had eaten the meat.

Who acts: hunters · What happens: shoot, eat, be · To what, where: two deer, much meat, meat

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 (hunters), 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 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shot	nsubj
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 deer	nummod
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shot	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	conj
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meat	amod
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stronger	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stronger	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stronger	cop
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 shot	parataxis
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 eaten	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eaten	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 stronger	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meat	det
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	the hunters	two deer		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	eat	past	the hunters not said here	much meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	is	past	hunters = hunter		strong property	tree rules
4	eat	past · perfect	hunters = hunter	the meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 19