Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 12

The weasels followed the blue heron, and when he lay down they ran across over his body to the river bank.

Who acts: weasels, heron · What happens: follow, lie down, run · To what, where: blue heron, body

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weasels, heron), 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 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heron	det
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heron	amod
6	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lay	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ran	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	conj
15	across	across	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 body	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bank	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bank	compound
22	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the weasels	the blue heron			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Theme
2	lie down	past	heron			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	weasels = weasel		heron's body	to the river bank result; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bank=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 12