Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 22
When the red warrior of the sky goes out of sight in the west he rides in a canoe behind the trees and hills to his place in the east.
Who acts: red warrior, warrior · What happens: go out, ride · To what, where: sight, west, canoe
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red warrior, warrior), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 goes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warrior | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warrior | amod |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warrior | nmod |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rides | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 west | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 west | det |
| 14 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rides | nsubj |
| 16 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 canoe | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 canoe | det |
| 19 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rides | obl |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 canoe | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hills | cc |
| 24 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trees | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rides | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 east | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 east | det |
| 30 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | the red warrior of the sky | sight | the west | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | present | warrior | a canoe behind the trees and hills | to warrior's place in the east | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory |
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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