Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 14
“One fall our tribe was out hunting, and a thunder-bird flew down on the ground just a little way from them.
Who acts: thunder bird · What happens: be, fly down · To what, where: fall hunting, little way, ground
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 (thunder bird), 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 | _ | 8 hunting | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fall | nummod |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | compound |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 thunder | punct |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 flew | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 way | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | fall hunting | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly down in a quote | past | a thunder bird | a little way from wings | the ground | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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