Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 15
Tchakobeech liked this new country very much, but he could not see any people.
Who acts: Tchakobeech · What happens: like, not see · To what, where: new country, people
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), 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 | Tchakobeech | Tchakobeech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 country | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 liked | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 liked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 liked | conj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Tchakobeech | this new country | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | Tchakobeech | any people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
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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