Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 17
There was none to cook the deer meat his trembling feet brought to his wigwam.
Who acts: none, trembling feet · What happens: be, cook, bring · To what, where: deer meat, wigwam
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, trembling feet), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cook | mark |
| 5 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 none | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meat | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | compound |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cook | obj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feet | compound |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 meat | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wigwam | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cook | to-infinitive | none not said here | the deer meat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Osseo's trembling feet | the deer meat not said here | Osseo's wigwam | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to wigwam=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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