Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 43
So the learned professor was spared to return to tell the tale.
What happens: learn, spare, return, tell · To what, where: learned professor, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 spared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 professor | det |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 professor | amod |
| 4 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spared | aux:pass |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spared | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | spare | past · passive | the learned professor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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