Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 2
A big blue heron was standing in a marsh near a river.
Who acts: big blue heron · What happens: stand · To what, where: marsh
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 (big blue 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heron | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heron | amod |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heron | amod |
| 4 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 marsh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 marsh | det |
| 9 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marsh | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | a big blue heron | a marsh near a river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marsh=Location |
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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