Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 80
The child fell from the star, and the woman and all the birds followed it, down, down to the same island they had left.
Who acts: child, woman, things · What happens: fall, follow, leave · To what, where: star, child, same island
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 (child, woman, things), 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 star | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 star | det |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 birds | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 birds | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 woman | conj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 down | punct |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 down | punct |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 island | amod |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 down | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 island | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the child | the star | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from star=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the woman and all birds | child | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | things = thing | the same island not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
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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