Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 20
The chief gave the boy a pipe and a bow and some arrows.
Who acts: chief · What happens: give · To what, where: pipe, boy
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 (chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pipe | det |
| 7 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bow | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bow | det |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pipe | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrows | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 arrows | det |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pipe | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the chief | a pipe and a bow and some arrows | the boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient pipe=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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