Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 19
If a fisherman drifted near her wigwam by the shore, she always turned him into a great rock.
Who acts: wife · What happens: drift, turn · To what, where: fisherman, wigwam, Bay, great rock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fisherman | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | advcl |
| 4 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fisherman | acl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 wigwam | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drifted | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fisherman | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rock | amod |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | participle | a fisherman not said here | wife's wigwam | by the shore | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near wigwam=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | past | wife | Bay | a great rock | a fisherman advcl; always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into rock=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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