Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 24
The little chipmunk was quick, but the bear nearly caught him as the chipmunk ran into a hole in a hollow tree.
Who acts: little chipmunk, bear, chipmunk · What happens: be, catch, run · To what, where: sun, hole
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little chipmunk, bear, chipmunk), 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 | 3 chipmunk | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chipmunk | amod |
| 3 | chipmunk | chipmunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quick | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 caught | advmod |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ran | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chipmunk | det |
| 15 | chipmunk | chipmunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hole | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little chipmunk | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the bear | sun | nearly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past | the chipmunk | into a hole in a hollow tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hole=Result |
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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