Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 2
An Indian hunter shot at a moose, but his arrow missed and took the life of another hunter, the brother of Wahkandee the Lightning.
Who acts: Indian hunter shot · What happens: miss, take · To what, where: life
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 (Indian hunter shot), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shot | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shot | amod |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | compound |
| 4 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moose | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moose | det |
| 7 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 missed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 missed | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 missed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hunter | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 hunter | det |
| 19 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 life | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brother | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brother | det |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunter | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wahkandee | case |
| 24 | Wahkandee | Wahkandee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brother | nmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Lightning | det |
| 26 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Wahkandee | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | a Indian hunter shot at a moose | shot's arrow nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a Indian hunter shot at a moose not said here | the life of another hunter and the brother of Wahkandee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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