Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 23

He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go and fell down through the sky.

Who acts: Catcher, sun · What happens: shoot, hit, let, go, fall down · To what, where: stars, one, sky

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 (Catcher, sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 stars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stars	det
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shot	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hit	cc
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 hit	advmod
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hit	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 hit	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 let	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	advcl
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	Catcher		the stars		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at star=Destination
2	hit	infinitive		one		hard, sometimes property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
3	let	past	sun				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	sun not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall down	past	sun not said here		the sky	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through sky=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 23