Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 5
The pair of cranes flew down to the earth and began to search for a home.
Who acts: pair · What happens: fly down, begin, search
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair), 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 | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cranes | case |
| 4 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | the pair of cranes | to the earth result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the pair of cranes not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | the pair of cranes not said here | for a home | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for home=Theme |
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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