Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 8

When the wind blew the coldest he would go out to where the reeds grew through the ice, and pulling them up, dive down into the holes for fish.

Who acts: wind, reeds · What happens: blow, go out, grow, pull up, dive down · To what, where: coldest, ice, reeds, holes

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 (wind, reeds), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 blew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coldest	det
6	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 blew	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	out	out	ADV	_	15 grew	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 where	case
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 grew	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reeds	det
14	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 ice	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ice	det
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dive	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dive	cc
21	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 dive	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pulling	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 pulling	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pulling	punct
25	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 go	parataxis
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 dive	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 holes	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 holes	det
29	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dive	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 fish	case
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holes	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	the coldest			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
2	go out	would	wind				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the reeds		the ice	out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=Location
4	pull up	gerund		reeds = reed			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	dive down	infinitive			the holes for fish	down property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 8