Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 11
It had flown to the top of the tallest tree.
What happens: fly · To what, where: bird, top
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flown | aux |
| 3 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flown | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · perfect · passive | bird | the top of the tallest tree | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to top=Destination |
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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