Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 8
They feared that the food would not last, and the two cranes flew to a great forest.
Who acts: cranes, food, two cranes · What happens: fear, not last, fly · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cranes, food, two cranes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 last | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 last | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 last | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 last | advmod |
| 8 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feared | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cranes | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 cranes | nummod |
| 13 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 feared | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | cranes = crane | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not last | would | the food | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the two cranes | to a great forest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=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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