Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 66
All the tribe who were eating were changed into birds.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: eat, change · To what, where: tribe
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 (tribe), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tribe | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tribe | det |
| 3 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 eating | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eating | aux |
| 6 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tribe | acl:relcl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | aux:pass |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | all tribe | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | all tribe | into birds result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=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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