Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 51
The hunters got their canoes and came out to him with their tomahawks, for they thought it was a moose and they would get much fat meat.
Who acts: hunters, noise · What happens: get, come out, think, be · To what, where: canoes, Menabozho, moose, much fat meat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunters, noise), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tomahawks | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tomahawks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tomahawks | tomahawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moose | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 moose | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moose | det |
| 21 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | conj |
| 26 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meat | amod |
| 27 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meat | compound |
| 28 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the hunters | hunters's canoes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the hunters not said here | Menabozho | with hunters's tomahawks; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | hunters = hunter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | noise | a moose | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | would | hunters = hunter | much fat meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |
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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