Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 13
Many arrows hit the bird, and many strings of fine wampum fell to the ground.
Who acts: Many arrows, many strings · What happens: hit, fall · To what, where: bird
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: who acts (Many arrows, many strings), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrows | amod |
| 2 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strings | amod |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wampum | case |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wampum | amod |
| 12 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strings | nmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Many arrows | the bird | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | many strings of fine wampum | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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