Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 54
It is said a Navajo once forgot himself and, looking up, became blind.
What happens: say, forget, look up, become · To what, where: direction, Zuñi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Navajo | det |
| 5 | Navajo | navajo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 forgot | advmod |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | advcl |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 forgot | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 forgot | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looking | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgot | conj |
| 15 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | direction | a Navajo obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme navajo=Manner | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Zuñi | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | become | past | blind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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