Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 21
The blue heron was too proud to be used as a bridge for every one.
Who acts: blue heron · What happens: be, use
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heron | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heron | amod |
| 3 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 proud | advmod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proud | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the blue heron | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive · passive | the blue heron not said here | as a bridge; for every one | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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