Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 21

He cooked the great fish and ate his supper, then lay on his side before the burning log and sang a mocking song about the north wind.

Who acts: Shingebis · What happens: cook, eat, lie, burn, sing · To what, where: great fish, supper, side, mocking song

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cooked	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 supper	nmod:poss
9	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lay	advmod
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cooked	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 side	nmod:poss
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	before	before	ADP	_	19 log	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 log	det
18	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 log	amod
19	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sang	cc
21	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 song	det
23	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 song	compound
24	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sang	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
27	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wind	compound
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 song	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	Shingebis	the great fish				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	eat	past	Shingebis not said here	Shingebis's supper				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	lie	past			Shingebis's side	before the burning log; then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
4	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past		a mocking song			about the north wind	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 21