Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 12

Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the tree, and it grew twice as tall as it was at first.

Who acts: Tchakobeech, breath · What happens: be, blow, grow · To what, where: time, top, breath, tree

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tchakobeech, breath), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blew	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 top	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 top	cop
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	acl:relcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pine	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pine	det
10	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blew	nsubj
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 breath	nmod:poss
14	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blew	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grew	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blew	conj
22	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 tall	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 tall	advmod
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	29 first	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 first	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 first	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 first	case
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 tall	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tchakobeech	each time not said here	the top		of the pine	tree rules
2	blow	past	Tchakobeech	Tchakobeech's breath	the tree	time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
3	grow	past	breath				tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	breath				first property	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 12