Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 5
The long line of boats swept quickly down the stream.
Who acts: long line · What happens: sweep · To what, where: stream
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 (long line), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 line | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 line | amod |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swept | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boats | case |
| 5 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 line | nmod |
| 6 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 swept | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 stream | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swept | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | the long line of boats | the stream | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory |
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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