Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 29

Two Indian girls sat back to back in the middle of the white wigwam, each looking out of a door.

Who acts: Two Indian girls, each · What happens: sit back, look out · To what, where: middle, door

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 (Two Indian girls, each), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girls	nummod
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girls	amod
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 back	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 wigwam	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wigwam	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wigwam	amod
14	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 looking	nsubj
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 door	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit back	past	Two Indian girls			the middle of the white wigwam		to back	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	look out	gerund	each	a door					tree rules

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, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 29