Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 28
The young caribou put his head into the fire teepee and tried to reach the coals, but he could not do it.
Who acts: young caribou, caribou · What happens: put, try, reach, not do · To what, where: head, fire teepee, coals
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young caribou, caribou), 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 caribou | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caribou | amod |
| 3 | caribou | caribou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 teepee | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teepee | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teepee | compound |
| 10 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reach | mark |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coals | det |
| 16 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the young caribou | caribou's head | the fire teepee | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 2 | try | past | the young caribou not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young caribou not said here | the coals | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do | could | caribou | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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