Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 36

Meat was put on the fire and burned, and as it burned it came up to Cloud Catcher’s feet, and he ate it like a hungry man.

Who acts: meat, chief · What happens: put, burn, come up, eat · To what, where: Meat, fire, feet

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 (meat, 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	Meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux:pass
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burned	cc
8	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 burned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burned	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 burned	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 burned	nsubj
13	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burned	conj
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 feet	case
18	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 feet	nmod:poss
19	Catcher	Catcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cloud	flat
20	’s	's	PART	_	18 Cloud	case
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ate	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ate	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ate	nsubj
25	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ate	obj
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ate	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		Meat	the fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination
2	burn	past					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burn	past	meat				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come up	past	meat		Cloud's feet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
5	eat	past	chief	meat		like a hungry man	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 36

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 36