Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 4
There was much moose meat, and it would last many weeks.
Who acts: much moose meat, meat · What happens: be, last
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 (much moose meat, meat), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meat | amod |
| 4 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | compound |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 last | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 last | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 last | aux |
| 10 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weeks | amod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 last | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | much moose meat | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | would | meat | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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