Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 59
It was long as a wildcat, but it had no hair like the wildcat.
Who acts: trail · What happens: be, have · To what, where: hair
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trail), 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 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | cop |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wildcat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wildcat | det |
| 6 | wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 hair | det |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 wildcat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wildcat | det |
| 15 | wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hair | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | trail | as a wildcat; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | trail | no hair | like the wildcat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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