Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 7
After many moons he made snares or traps and caught the blind bear and the big rabbit, but he never saw his mother again.
Who acts: papoose · What happens: make, catch, not see · To what, where: snares, blind bear, mother
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 (papoose), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 moons | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moons | amod |
| 3 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 traps | cc |
| 8 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 snares | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 12 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bear | amod |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rabbit | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rabbit | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rabbit | amod |
| 17 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 saw | advmod |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | papoose | snares or traps | after many moons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Product | |||
| 2 | catch | past | papoose not said here | the blind bear and the big rabbit | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | past | papoose | papoose's mother | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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