Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 17
It was caught for one minute by a rock, then it leaped forward like a great fish and was out of sight.
Who acts: rock, whoop · What happens: catch, leap, be · To what, where: whoop, sight
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, whoop), 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 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 minute | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minute | nummod |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaped | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 leaped | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaped | nsubj |
| 13 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 leaped | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fish | amod |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaped | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sight | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sight | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaped | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | a rock | whoop | minute | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | leap | past | whoop | then | like a great fish; forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | whoop not said here | sight | 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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