Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 5
When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian who had seen a hundred winters.
Who acts: poison light arrow, Osseo · What happens: strike, become, see · To what, where: Osseo
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 (poison light arrow, Osseo), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 struck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrow | compound |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrow | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | advcl |
| 8 | Osseo | Osseo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Indian | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Indian | det |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Indian | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hundred | det |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 winters | nummod |
| 19 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seen | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the poison light arrow | Osseo | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent osseo=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Osseo | indian property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | winter | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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