Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 14

While he was in the trap trying to get loose, a wolf came along under the trees; she had two young wolves with her.

Who acts: Menabozho, trap, wolf · What happens: be, try, get, come along, have · To what, where: trap, trees, two young wolves

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, trap, wolf), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 trap	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trap	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trap	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	advcl
7	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 trap	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trap	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 wolves	nummod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wolves	amod
24	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Menabozho		the trap		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the trap not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the trap not said here			loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	come along	past	a wolf		the trees	along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
5	have	past	wolf	two young wolves		with arm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 14