Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 3
They would sit on this little hill and eat their supper.
Who acts: boys · What happens: sit, eat · To what, where: little hill, supper
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hill | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hill | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hill | amod |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | would | boys = boy | this little hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | boys = boy not said here | boys's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
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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