Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 24
Nobody could follow them, for now the tree was too short.
Who acts: Nobody, tree · What happens: follow, be · To what, where: sleeps
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 (Nobody, tree), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 short | mark |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 short | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 short | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 short | advmod |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | could | Nobody | sleeps = sleep | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the tree | now | short 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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