Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 17
“I will go to his lodge and visit him,” said the north wind one day, as he saw Shingebis dragging home a great fish.
Who acts: north wind, fire, Shingebis · What happens: go, visit, say, see, drag · To what, where: lodge, fire, Shingebis, great fish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (north wind, fire, Shingebis), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lodge | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 visit | cc |
| 9 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 visit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 15 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wind | compound |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wind | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | Shingebis | Shingebis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 dragging | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fish | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fish | amod |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dragging | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | the north wind one day = wind | fire's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | visit in a quote | infinitive | the north wind one day = wind not said here | fire | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the north wind one day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | past | fire | Shingebis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drag | gerund | Shingebis not said here | a great fish | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
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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