Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 2
Three Ojibway hunters had been out hunting for meat many days; it was in a new place.
Who acts: Three Ojibway hunters, meat · What happens: have out, hunt, be · To what, where: new place
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 (Three Ojibway hunters, meat), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hunters | nummod |
| 2 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hunters | compound |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 out | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 had | compound:prt |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 had | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 meat | case |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunting | obl |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunting | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 place | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have out | past | Three Ojibway hunters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Three Ojibway hunters not said here | day | for meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for meat=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | meat | a new place | tree rules |
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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