Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 25
She could shoot farther than Cloud Catcher, but she never hurt anything with her arrows.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: shoot, not hurt · To what, where: anything
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 (maiden), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shoot | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shoot | aux |
| 3 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 shoot | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Catcher | case |
| 6 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Catcher | compound |
| 7 | Catcher | Catcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farther | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurt | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurt | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurt | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 hurt | advmod |
| 12 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shoot | conj |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 hurt | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 arrows | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 anything | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | could | maiden | far property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | past | maiden | anything | with maiden's arrows | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient |
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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