Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 16
Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country behind the sky, and soon they stopped in front of a great teepee which belonged to a great chief with hair like fire.
Who acts: you, Catcher, stars, great teepee · What happens: cloud, go, stop, belong · To what, where: clouds, front
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Catcher, stars, great teepee), 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 | Cloud | cloud | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Catcher | Catcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cloud | ccomp |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 clouds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 clouds | det |
| 6 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 stopped | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 teepee | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 teepee | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 teepee | amod |
| 24 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 belonged | nsubj |
| 26 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 teepee | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 chief | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 chief | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 chief | amod |
| 30 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 belonged | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 hair | case |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chief | nmod |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 fire | case |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hair | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Catcher | the clouds | into the beautiful country; behind the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through cloud=Initial_Location into country=Destination | |||
| 3 | stop | past | stars = star | front of a great teepee | soon property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 4 | belong | past | a great teepee | to a great chief with hair like fire | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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