Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 66
Iagoo sat down in the sand and laughed, while the ant pulled the rabbit into the ant-hole.
Who acts: Iagoo, ant · What happens: sit down, laugh, pull · To what, where: sand, rabbit, ant hole
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 (Iagoo, ant), 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 | Iagoo | Iagoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sand | det |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laughed | cc |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ant | det |
| 12 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | nsubj |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laughed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rabbit | det |
| 15 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 18 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hole | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ant | punct |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Iagoo | the sand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Iagoo not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull | past | the ant | the rabbit | the ant hole | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent rabbit=Result |
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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