Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 14
Some picked these up and ran away, for they were rich now, and did not care for the prize; but, when they reached the village, the wampum turned to turkey feathers in their hands.
Who acts: Some, strings, wampum · What happens: pick up, run away, be, not care, reach, turn · To what, where: these, village, hands
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 (Some, strings, wampum), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 picked | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rich | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 rich | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rich | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | cop |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ran | conj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 rich | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 care | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 care | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 care | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 care | advmod |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 picked | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 prize | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prize | det |
| 21 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 care | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 reached | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 village | det |
| 29 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reached | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wampum | det |
| 32 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 feathers | case |
| 35 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feathers | compound |
| 36 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 turned | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 hands | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 hands | nmod:poss |
| 39 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 turned | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Some | these | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | Some not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | strings = string | now | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not care | past · do-support | Some not said here | for the prize | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for prize=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | strings = string | the village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 6 | turn | past | the wampum | strings's hands | to turkey feathers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to feather=Source in hand=Trajectory |
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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