Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 2

Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishes of succotash to the top of a little hill near their wigwams.

Who acts: Seven Iroquois boys, habit · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: habit, dishes, wigwams

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven Iroquois boys, habit), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boys	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Iroquois	amod
3	Iroquois	iroquois	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boys	compound
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 habit	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 habit	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 habit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 habit	det
8	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 carrying	mark
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 habit	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dishes	nmod:poss
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carrying	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 succotash	case
14	succotash	succotash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dishes	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hill	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hill	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hill	amod
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 wigwams	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wigwams	nmod:poss
24	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carrying	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Seven Iroquois boys			the habit			tree rules
2	carry	gerund	the habit not said here	boys's dishes of succotash		boys's wigwams		to the top of a little hill	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme to top=Destination

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 2