Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 32
The heron flapped his wings and flew back to his place in the marsh.
Who acts: heron · What happens: flap, fly back · To what, where: wings
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 (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 heron | det |
| 2 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flapped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flew | cc |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 marsh | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marsh | det |
| 14 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | the heron | heron's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly back | past | the heron not said here | to heron's place in the marsh result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=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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