Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 8
The big blue heron was pleased, for he liked to be called tall.
Who acts: big blue heron, heron · What happens: be, like, call · 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 (big blue heron, 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 | 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 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 liked | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 liked | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 liked | ccomp |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the big blue heron | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | past | heron | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | heron not said here | tall property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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