Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 10

“I never did, but my father’s brother, Little Crow, saw one fall dead out of the sky.

Who acts: white man, brother · What happens: not do, see · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white man, brother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Crow	punct
12	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Crow	amod
13	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brother	punct
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 fall	nummod
17	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dead	obl:unmarked
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saw	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 sky	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	the white man = man						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	past	my father's brother and Little Crow			the sky		dead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 10