Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 31
One of the little living fires came and lit upon his arrows.
What happens: come, light · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fires | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fires | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fires | amod |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fires | compound |
| 6 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lit | cc |
| 9 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 arrows | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lit | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | One | of the little living fires | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of fire=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | light | past | upon father's arrows | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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