Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 69
Others were changed to quails and wild geese.
What happens: change · To what, where: Others
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: 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | aux:pass |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 quails | case |
| 5 | quails | quail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 geese | cc |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 geese | amod |
| 8 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quails | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | Others | to quails and wild geese | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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