Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 22

The pukwudjinnie left them; then the hunters put their blankets over their heads and sat down.

Who acts: pukwudjinnie, hunters · What happens: leave, put, sit down · To what, where: hunters, blankets, heads

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 (pukwudjinnie, 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 pukwudjinnie	det
2	pukwudjinnie	pukwudjinnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 put	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunters	det
8	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 blankets	nmod:poss
11	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 heads	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past	the pukwudjinnie	hunters = hunter			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	put	past	the hunters	hunters's blankets	hunters's heads	then	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme over head=Destination
3	sit down	past	the hunters not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 22