Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 19
Your long neck is very thin, but it might hold if one were as quick as a weasel.
Who acts: long neck, neck, one · What happens: be, hold
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 (long neck, neck, one), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neck | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neck | amod |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thin | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thin | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 thin | advmod |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hold | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | aux |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thin | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 quick | mark |
| 13 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 quick | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 quick | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 quick | advmod |
| 16 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 weasel | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 weasel | det |
| 19 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quick | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your long neck | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | might | neck | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | one | as a weasel; quick property | tree rules |
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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