Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 44
As quick as a bird can fly he came out of the farther end of the hollow log, but he was no longer an old man.
Who acts: bird · What happens: fly, come out, be · To what, where: farther end, old man
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 quick | advmod |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | aux |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 13 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 end | amod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 log | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 log | det |
| 17 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 log | amod |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 man | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 man | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 man | cop |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 man | advmod |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quick | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | can | a bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | bird | the farther end of the hollow log | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient end=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | bird | a old man | long property | tree rules |
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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