Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 33
As he slipped out of the doorway not saying a word, he flew as straight as he could to the places where the reeds and rushes grew.
Who acts: Kabibonokka, reeds · What happens: slip out, not say, fly, grow · To what, where: doorway, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabibonokka, reeds), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 slipped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flew | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 doorway | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 doorway | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doorway | det |
| 7 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 saying | advmod |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 slipped | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 straight | advmod |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flew | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 straight | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 places | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 places | det |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 could | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 grew | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 reeds | det |
| 25 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 grew | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rushes | cc |
| 27 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 reeds | conj |
| 28 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 places | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | past | Kabibonokka | the doorway | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent doorway=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | gerund | Kabibonokka not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | Kabibonokka | straight property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the reeds and rushes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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