Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 5

But each log would burn a whole moon, and as but four moons were cold, there was wood enough.

Who acts: log, four moons, wood · What happens: burn, be · To what, where: whole moon

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 (log, four moons, wood), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 burn	cc
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 log	det
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moon	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moon	amod
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 as	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 as	cc
11	as	as	ADV	_	5 burn	advmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cold	cc
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 moons	nummod
14	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cold	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cold	cop
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 as	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	advcl
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
21	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wood	amod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	would	each log	a whole moon			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme
2	is	past	four moons			cold property	tree rules
3	be	past	wood		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 5