Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 28
His sister told him there was nothing to catch in such a beautiful country.
Who acts: sister, nothing · What happens: tell, be, catch · To what, where: Tchakobeech, beautiful country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sister, nothing), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 was | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 catch | mark |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 country | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catch | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Tchakobeech's sister | Tchakobeech | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | such beautiful country | vn get-13.5.1 «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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