Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 18

The moccasins seemed to be always within the reach of his hands, but he could never touch them.

Who acts: moccasins, Wahkandee · What happens: seem, be, not touch · To what, where: moccasins

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 (moccasins, 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 moccasins	det
2	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 reach	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 reach	advmod
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 reach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reach	det
9	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reach	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 touch	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 touch	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touch	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 touch	advmod
18	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touch	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the moccasins			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the moccasins not said here		within the reach; of Wahkandee's hands; always property	tree rules
3	not touch	could	Wahkandee	moccasins = moccasin		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 18