Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 9
There lay a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones.
What happens: lie · To what, where: pair
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 moccasins | case |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moccasins | amod |
| 7 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pair | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bones | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bones | amod |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bones | amod |
| 11 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bones | compound |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moccasins | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=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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