Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 17
Sometimes the young brave was strong; he would stand on the slippery rock like an eagle resting on the mountain.
Who acts: young brave, arrow, eagle · What happens: be, stand, rest · To what, where: slippery rock, mountain
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young brave, arrow, eagle), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 strong | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brave | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brave | amod |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stand | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | aux |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 strong | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 13 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rock | amod |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stand | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 eagle | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stand | obl |
| 18 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 eagle | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mountain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young brave | sometimes, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | would | arrow | the slippery rock | like a eagle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | |||
| 3 | rest | gerund | a eagle not said here | the mountain | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |
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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