Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 43

They learned much about planting, and they learned how to store food for winter time.

Who acts: corn · What happens: learn, plant, store · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 learned	advmod
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 planting	mark
5	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 learned	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 learned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learned	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learned	nsubj
9	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 store	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 store	mark
12	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learned	xcomp
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 store	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	compound
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 store	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	learn	past	corn			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plant	gerund	corn not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	learn	past	corn			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	store	to-infinitive	corn not said here	food	time	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 43