Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 23

Tchakobeech made another hole in the sky, and after his sister had gone through it he broke off the top of the tree and went through it himself.

Who acts: Tchakobeech · What happens: make, go, break off · To what, where: hole, sky, top, Tchakobeech

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 broke	nsubj
18	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 top	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 top	det
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broke	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 top	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 broke	conj
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	obl
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 went	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	Tchakobeech	another hole	the sky		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
2	go	past · perfect	Tchakobeech not said here		sky	after Tchakobeech's sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location
3	break off	past	Tchakobeech	the top of the tree			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Patient
4	go	past	Tchakobeech not said here	Tchakobeech	sky		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 23