Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 28
He tried to get up, and his tail broke off short in the ice.
Who acts: bear, tail · What happens: try, get up, break off
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, tail), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 get | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 broke | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 broke | compound:prt |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 broke | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ice | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | bear | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get up not said to happen | to-infinitive | bear not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | break off | past | bear's tail | short property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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