Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 3
A blind bear had killed the child’s father, and a huge rabbit had carried off his mother.
What happens: kill, carry off · To what, where: blind bear, huge rabbit
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 child | case |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rabbit | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rabbit | amod |
| 14 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | aux |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | a blind bear | the child's father obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer father=Result | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | a huge rabbit | rabbit's mother obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mother=Value |
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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