Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 77
One day the son of Osseo was learning to use his bow and arrow.
Who acts: son · What happens: learn, use · To what, where: bow
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 (son), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learning | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learning | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Osseo | case |
| 6 | Osseo | Osseo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 learning | aux |
| 8 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 use | mark |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learning | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrow | cc |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bow | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · progressive | the son of Osseo | day | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | the son of Osseo not said here | son's bow and arrow | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=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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