Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 29
He simply rose and stirred the coals of the fire about the log till they blazed and sent out a great heat.
Who acts: Shingebis, coals · What happens: rise, stir, blaze, send out · To what, where: coals, great heat
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, coals), 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 | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stirred | cc |
| 5 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coals | det |
| 7 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stirred | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coals | nmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 log | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 log | det |
| 13 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | nmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 blazed | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blazed | nsubj |
| 16 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 blazed | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heat | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heat | amod |
| 22 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Shingebis | simply property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stir | past | Shingebis not said here | the coals of the fire about the log | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coal=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | blaze | past | coals = coal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send out | past | coals = coal not said here | a great heat | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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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