Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 43

A bear watches the west door, and when the wind blows from the west even the white people can hear the bear growling.

Who acts: bear, wind, white people · What happens: watch, blow, hear, growl · To what, where: west door, bear

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 (bear, wind, white people), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watches	nsubj
3	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watches	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blows	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blows	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 blows	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blows	nsubj
12	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watches	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 west	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 west	det
15	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blows	obl
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 people	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 blows	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bear	det
23	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obj
24	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hear	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch	present	a bear	the west door		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	blow	present	the wind		from the west	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from west=Co-Patient
3	hear	can	the white people	the bear		tree rules
4	growl	gerund	the bear not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 43