Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 15
They danced faster than ever before; their feet left the ground and they were dancing in the air.
Who acts: boys, feet · What happens: dance, leave · To what, where: ground, air
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, feet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 danced | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 before | mark |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 before | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 faster | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dancing | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dancing | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dancing | aux |
| 16 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 left | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dancing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | boys = boy | ever | fast property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past | boys's feet | the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | past · progressive | boys = boy | the air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
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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