Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 5

The three Indians had said to their fathers that they would seek it; now they sat on a little hill, and it was before them.

Who acts: three Indians, Indians, way · What happens: say, seek, sit, be · To what, where: fathers, way, little hill · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three Indians, Indians, way), 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	3 Indians	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Indians	nummod
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fathers	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fathers	nmod:poss
8	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 seek	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seek	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 seek	aux
12	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seek	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sat	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 hill	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hill	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hill	amod
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 them	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 them	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 them	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 them	cop
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the three Indians		Indians's fathers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
2	seek	would	Indians = indian	way				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	sit	past	Indians = indian			a little hill	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
4	is	past	way				before fathers = father	tree rules

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 5