Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 42
Take the moose meat that hangs here on the trees and eat.
Who acts: you, moose meat · What happens: take, hang, eat · To what, where: moose meat, trees
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 (you, moose meat), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meat | det |
| 3 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meat | compound |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hangs | nsubj |
| 6 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meat | acl:relcl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hangs | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hangs | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eat | cc |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hangs | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the moose meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | the moose meat | the trees; here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | the moose meat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/65/42/