Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 43
Just then a little mouse jumped out of a stump.
Who acts: little mouse · What happens: jump out · To what, where: stump
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mouse), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stump | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stump | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stump | det |
| 10 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | a little mouse | a stump | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stump=Trajectory |
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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