Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 52
His going was not stopped by trees nor rocks, for nothing hindered him.
Who acts: rabbit, trees, nothing · What happens: go, not stop, hinder · To what, where: rabbit
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, trees, nothing), 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 | His | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 going | nsubj |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stopped | advcl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | obl |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 rocks | cc |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trees | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hindered | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 hindered | mark |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 hindered | nsubj |
| 13 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hindered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | rabbit | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not stop | past · passive | trees nor rocks | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hinder | past | nothing | rabbit | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |
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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