Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 17
The thorns tore his buckskin suit, but he never stopped in the chase.
Who acts: thorns, Wahkandee · What happens: tore, not stop · To what, where: buckskin suit, chase
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorns, Wahkandee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thorns | det |
| 2 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tore | nsubj |
| 3 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 suit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | buckskin | buckskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 suit | amod |
| 6 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tore | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tore | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chase | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chase | det |
| 14 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | the thorns | Wahkandee's buckskin suit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stop | past | Wahkandee | the chase | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chase=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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