Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 33
I have caught a great fire in my traps.”
What happens: catch · To what, where: I
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fire | amod |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 traps | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 traps | nmod:poss |
| 9 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fire | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · perfect · passive | I | a great fire obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fire=Theme |
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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