Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 5
“That is a beautiful bird,” said the mother weasel, “see how high he carries his head.”
Who acts: That, beautiful bird, bird · What happens: be, say, see, carry · To what, where: beautiful bird, mother weasel, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, beautiful bird, bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weasel | det |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weasel | compound |
| 12 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 carries | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carries | nsubj |
| 19 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carries | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a beautiful bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a beautiful bird | the mother weasel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | present | bird | bird's head | high property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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