Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 16
She ran back to the grove and leaning against a tall tree told to it her sorrow.
Who acts: Leelinaw · What happens: run back, lean, tell, sorrow · To what, where: tall tree, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leelinaw), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 grove | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grove | det |
| 6 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leaning | cc |
| 8 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaning | obl |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | obl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | Leelinaw | to the grove result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to grove=Result | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | Leelinaw not said here | a tall tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | a tall tree not said here | Leelinaw's sorrow | grove obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Topic to it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sorrow | Leelinaw | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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