Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 10
A hundred warriors took their bows and arrows and went softly to the thick woods where the wampum-bird was resting.
Who acts: hundred warriors, wampum bird · What happens: take, go, rest · To what, where: bows, thick woods
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred warriors, wampum bird), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 warriors | nummod |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bows | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arrows | cc |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bows | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 14 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woods | amod |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 resting | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 18 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bird | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 wampum | punct |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 resting | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 resting | aux |
| 22 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 woods | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hundred warriors | leaves's bows and arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | hundred warriors not said here | the thick woods | softly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rest | past · progressive | the wampum bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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