Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 3
The woods were very thick, but there were no deer in them.
Who acts: woods, deer · What happens: be
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 (woods, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woods | det |
| 2 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 thick | advmod |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 were | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 deer | det |
| 11 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 were | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the woods | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no deer | there | in woods = wood | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=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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