Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 7
“If I were as tall as he, I would carry you across this little river.”
Who acts: little weasel · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: you, little river
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 (little weasel), 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 | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 tall | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tall | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tall | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 tall | advmod |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carry | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 he | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tall | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tall | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 river | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 river | amod |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the little weasel = weasel | as bird; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | would | the little weasel = weasel | you | this little river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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