Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 4
He had only four logs of wood for his fire for the whole winter.
Who acts: ice · What happens: have, fire · To what, where: four logs
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 (ice), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 four | advmod |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 logs | nummod |
| 5 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 logs | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fire | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 winter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winter | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 winter | amod |
| 14 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | ice | four logs of wood | winter | for ice's fire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient | ||
| 2 | fire | ice | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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