Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 9
He was proud and could carry his head very high, but he stooped and spoke to the two weasels.
Who acts: heron · What happens: be, carry, stoop, speak · To what, where: 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proud | cop |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proud | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carry | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooped | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stooped | nsubj |
| 14 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proud | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stooped | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 weasels | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weasels | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 weasels | nummod |
| 20 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoke | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | heron | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | heron not said here | heron's head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stoop | past | heron | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | heron not said here | to the two weasels | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to weasel=Co-Agent |
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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