Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 23
The stranger stood very still, and then his blanket changed into leaves, and Usama the tobacco plant fell down to the ground.
Who acts: stranger, blanket, Usama · What happens: stand, change, fall down · To what, where: leaves
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, blanket, Usama), 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 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 still | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 changed | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 changed | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 changed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 16 | Usama | Usama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plant | det |
| 18 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | compound |
| 19 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Usama | appos |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 fell | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the stranger | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | past | Earth's blanket | then | into leaves result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into leaf=Result | |||
| 3 | fall down | past | Usama | to the ground; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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