Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 10
Out it came and was poised at a different angle.
Who acts: mirror · What happens: come, poise · To what, where: different angle
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirror), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 poised | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 poised | aux:pass |
| 6 | poised | poise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 angle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 angle | det |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 angle | amod |
| 10 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poised | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | mirror | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | poise | past · passive | mirror not said here | a different angle | 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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