Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 40
“I can only see moose bones lying on the ground.
Who acts: Wahkandee, moose bones · What happens: see, lie · To what, where: moose bones, ground
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 (Wahkandee, moose bones), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bones | compound |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bones | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | Wahkandee | moose bones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | gerund | moose bones not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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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